“A man interested in the meaning of words, not one whose interests leave words meaningless.” — Ali Smith Copy Share Image
Words are like untying a corset - you can move into this great space with them. — Ali Smith Copy Share Image
“Language is like poppies. It just takes something to churn the earth round them up, and when it does up come the… — Ali Smith Copy Share Image
When you fall in love with a book, something especially interesting and exciting is happening because of the way language works on… — Ali Smith Copy Share Image
All we need to do, reader or writer, from first line to final page, is be as open as a book, and… — Ali Smith Copy Share Image
“Language is like poppies. It just takes something to churn the earth round them up, and when it does up come the… — Ali Smith Copy Share Image
Thomas Teal, a luminous translator of Jansson's twin talent for surface and depth, simplicity and reverberation in language, and someone who knows… — Ali Smith Copy Share Image
“It's probably the closest thing resembling research I ever do (except for this last book, which took more traditional research) - listen… — Ali Smith Copy Share Image
As for Aliki - if you were to stand in the middle of Rome and say the name Sophia Loren, or Paris and say… — Ali Smith Copy Share
“Elisabeth had been listening to the programme in the bath. She'd switched the radio off after it and wondered if she'd be able to… — Ali Smith Copy Share
“I could lick it off with my tongue, if I had a tongue again, if my tongue was wet, and I could taste it… — Ali Smith Copy Share
“...he had simply typed the words something beautiful into the Google images box. Up came a picture of some leaves against the sun. A… — Ali Smith Copy Share
What shop did this book come from? she asked. Her father was looking worried at the cooker. He always got rice wrong. I don't… — Ali Smith Copy Share
What's the point of art, of any art, if it doesn't let us see with a little bit of objectivity where we are? — Ali Smith Copy Share
If you can read the world as a construct, you can ask questions of the construct, and you can suggest ways to change the… — Ali Smith Copy Share
“I’m tired of the news. I’m tired of the way it makes things spectacular that aren’t, and deals so simplistically with what’s truly appalling.… — Ali Smith Copy Share
“(this is before we're living together, before we do the most faithful act of all, mix our separate books into one library)” — Ali Smith Copy Share
[Property] is a brilliant, chillingly revelatory piece of fiction, a work of craft, economy and such good merciless observation-one of those rare, crucial novels… — Ali Smith Copy Share
