But everything written has style. The list of ingredients on the side of a cornflakes box has style. And everything literary has… — 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
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
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
I met an internationally esteemed writer at a literary party being given in her honor. She was wearing a beautiful pink, flouncy,… — 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
“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
“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
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
