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
Short stories consume you faster. They're connected to brevity. With the short story, you are up against mortality. I know how tough… — Ali Smith Copy Share Image
“Always be reading something, he said. Even when we’re not physically reading. How else will we read the world? Think of it… — Ali Smith Copy Share Image
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
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… — Ali Smith Copy Share Image
“That there can still be as-yet untranslated fiction by [Tove] Jansson is simultaneously an aberration and a delight, like finding buried treasure.” — 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
You never know what you're going to end up with when you sit down to write something. At the end, if it… — Ali Smith Copy Share Image
I'm blessed in my good friends, and some of them happen to be writers, though that's almost never what our friendships are… — 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
“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
“Ideas never stop, dear S, they're everywhere, in everything - all we have to do is be open to them. And stories… — 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
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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