We'd never expect to understand a piece of music on one listen, but we tend to believe we've read a book after… — Ali Smith Copy Share Image
“(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 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
Books mean all possibilities. They mean moving out of yourself, losing yourself, dying of thirst and living to your full. They mean… — Ali Smith Copy Share Image
“She likes to read, she reads all the time, and she prefers to be reading several things at once, she says it… — Ali Smith Copy Share Image
“That's one of the things stories and books can do, they can make more than one time possible at once.” — Ali Smith Copy Share Image
Nothing is harmful to literature except censorship, and that almost never stops literature going where it wants to go either, because literature… — Ali Smith Copy Share Image
[Property] is a brilliant, chillingly revelatory piece of fiction, a work of craft, economy and such good merciless observation-one of those rare,… — Ali Smith Copy Share Image
“I lie on the floor with my head on my books and my feet up on more of my books and stare… — Ali Smith Copy Share Image
“I think it's because when you hold a book you're also holding a tree in one form or another, and that direct… — Ali Smith Copy Share Image
“... because I can read you like a book and because the thing about a beloved book, if it's a good one,… — Ali Smith Copy Share Image
What shop did this book come from? she asked. Her father was looking worried at the cooker. He always got rice wrong.… — Ali Smith Copy Share Image
“The novel, he was saying, was a flabby old whore. A flabby old whore! the older man said looking delighted. She was… — Ali Smith Copy Share Image
“She’d opened the book she bought today. She’d started to read, from the beginning, quite quietly, out loud. It was the best… — Ali Smith Copy Share Image
A good argument, like a good dialogue, is always a proof of life, but I'd much rather go and read a book. — 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
“The Essentials of English, book of choice of the older boys at St. Faith’s for spanking the younger boys with, leaving a… — Ali Smith Copy Share Image
“His little sister is brilliant. She is at her desk deep in a book, half-opened books all over her desk, all over… — Ali Smith Copy Share Image
“The boy was in the Hitler Youth, he says, and he was reading a book one day, he was really enjoying it,… — 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 Image
“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 Image
There is a kind of poetry, bad and good, in evrything, everywhere we look. — Ali Smith Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“...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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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