“I could lick it off with my tongue, if I had a tongue again, if my tongue was wet, and I could… — Ali Smith Copy Share Image
The things in life which try to pin us down are the things we have to try to work against. — Ali Smith Copy Share Image
There's a point at which we make our lives, but we also take the path which is given to us. — Ali Smith Copy Share Image
People tend to see modernism as the opposite of a celebration. They see it as a fracturing and an art built round… — Ali Smith Copy Share Image
“[...] its small squares of fast-passing light, the early evening windows of the lives of hundreds of others.” — Ali Smith Copy Share Image
How could 30 years be the blink-of-the-eye it felt? It was the difference between black-and-white footage of the Second World War and… — Ali Smith Copy Share Image
“He was the most beautiful boy I had ever seen in my life. But he really looked like a girl. She was… — Ali Smith Copy Share Image
“That’s what winter is: an exercise in remembering how to still yourself then how to come pliantly back to life again.” — 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
A game one of my sisters will play with me in my first year of being alive is called Good Baby, Bad… — Ali Smith Copy Share Image
It's about the connecting force from form to form. It's the toe bone connecting to the shoulder bone. It's the bacterial kick… — 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
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
