Ali Smith

“All short stories long.”

— Ali Smith

“To be noticed is to be loved.”

— Ali Smith

“Believe me. Everything is meant.”

— Ali Smith

“Everywhere’s a here, isn’t it?”

— Ali Smith

“Winter. It made things visible.”

— Ali Smith

“Brave old world.”

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“Nothing comic isn’t serious.”

— Ali Smith

“It's what we do with the myths we grow up with that matters.”

— Ali Smith

I went to the top of Vesuvius and looked in.

— Ali Smith

“Giving is fraught with danger - as is taking.”

— Ali Smith

Love and the imagination are connected.

— Ali Smith

“ Words words words. Words Words words. Words words Words .”

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“The still-alives. They were all crazy.”

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“human beings can’t be legends, being mortal,”

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“The power of the lie, Daniel said. Always seductive to the powerless.”

— Ali Smith

“be ready to be above and beyond the foul even when we’re up to our eyes in it.”

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There is a kind of poetry, bad and good, in evrything, everywhere we look.

— Ali Smith

I wouldn't call my work Modernist. I would rust if I try to think about labels. I'd feel like the Tin Man…

— Ali Smith

“I'm good at the real and the true and the beautiful and can do With some skill and With or without flattery…

— Ali Smith

I want to be bored. But I can't. But I really don't want to be this thing that I'm having to be…

— Ali Smith

“You never stop being yourself on the inside, whatever age people think you are by looking at you from the outside.”

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“..cruelty to animals will get you punished but cruelty to humans will get you promotion.”

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“It is perhaps rather fine, after all, being dead. Highly underrated in the modern western world.”

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“We have to hope that the people who love us and who know us a little bit will in the end have…

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Then I saw her smile so close to my eye that there was nothing to see but the smile and the thought…

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“I went outside mournful, and I hit pure air. The air was full of birdsong. I went outside expecting rain but it…

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In the end, will truth matter? Of course truth will matter. Truth isn't relative. But there's going to be a great sacrifice…

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“It was like they all had their backs to me, even the ones facing me. Their disconnect was what elegant meant. Like…

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“Language is like poppies. It just takes something to churn the earth round them up, and when it does up come the…

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“His little sister is brilliant. She is at her desk deep in a book, half-opened books all over her desk, all over…

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You never know if you're a writer. You can't trust it. If you woke up and said, 'I'm a writer,' it would…

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“There's no point in making up a world, Elisabeth said, when there's already a real world, There's just the world, and there's…

— Ali Smith

“Finally she lets herself think about how it feels: to be so frightened that you almost can't breathe to speed so fast…

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“Google is so strange. It promises everything, but everything isn't there. You type in the words for what you need, and what…

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“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…

— Ali Smith

“I think it's because when you hold a book you're also holding a tree in one form or another, and that direct…

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“She had the swagger of a girl. She blushed like a boy. She had a girl’s toughness. She has a boy’s gentleness.…

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“I wished I was old. I was tired of being so young, so stupidly knowing, so stupidly forgetful. I was tired of…

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“The thing about trees is that they know what to do. When a leaf loses its colour, it's not because its time…

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The proper word for me," Robin Goodman says, "is me.

— Ali Smith