Wherever I go in the world, people all know about Scotland Street and are always asking me about what's going to happen… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
We think the world is ours forever, but we are little more than squatters. — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
I've always had a creative urge and I get immense satisfaction from creating something because it feels like I'm making sense of… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
Well, Id say all of us are a combination of moods and emotions. In my day to day life I dont go… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
Well, I'd say all of us are a combination of moods and emotions. In my day to day life I don't go… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
My wife Elizabeth and I started The Really Terrible Orchestra for people like us who are pretty hopeless musicians who would like… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
It is not enough just to identify a problem; there are plenty of people who were very skilled at pointing out what… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
Many of my books are written from a female perspective. I rather enjoy the take that women have on the world, and… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
To lose a child ... was something that could end one's world. One could never get back to how it was before.… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
We need to believe I think in justice. We need to run our lives as if justice existed... If we abandon a… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
Regular maps have few surprises: their contour lines reveal where the Andes are, and are reasonably clear. More precious, though, are the… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
And how we become like our parents! How their scorned advice - based, we felt in our superiority, on prejudices and muddled… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
It is the search for beauty...That is what it is. We find ourselves on this earth--gods and men--and we know that it… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
It was the same with friendship. Disagreement between friends and spouses, too had to be carefully handled. If the time you spent… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
“old-fashioned, gentle Scottish physician, unmoved by the considerations of profit and personal gain that could so disfigure medicine. That doctors should consider themselves businessmen… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share
“She had not made a lot of money, but she had not made a loss, and she had been happy and entertained. That counted… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share
And that, in a way, was the burden of being a philosopher: one knew what one had to do, but it was so often… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share
“To use strong language, she thought, was a sign of bad temper and lack of concern for others. Such people were not clever or… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share
“Men are very sensitive, Mma Makutsi. You would not always think it to look at them, but they are. They do not like you… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share
“He is a good man, but even a good man can fall for a glamorous woman. That is well known.” “That is very well… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share
“And then the second thing you have to do is go and see your son. That is a duty of love, Andrew. It's as… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share
“Because laughs never die away entirely,” said Jamie. “At least, if you believe in Marconi.” — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share
“The trouble with having a conscience, she said to herself, is that it never sleeps.” — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share
“And if there's bad behaviour," Mma Potokwane went on. "If there's bad behaviour, the quickest way of stopping it is to give more love.… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share
“Has he not got a wife back wherever he comes from? Is there no wife to say, ‘You must not go off and visit… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share
“He looked at her in the darkness, at this woman who was everything to him-mother, Africa, wisdom, understanding, good things to eat, pumpkins, chicken,… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share
“It is because you are generous in spirit; and may I be like that; may I become like you—which unrealistic wish, to become the… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share
“Mr. J.L.B. Matekoni,” she asked, “do you think that our souls grow as we get older?” He did not answer immediately, but when he did,… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share
