Ali Smith

As for Aliki - if you were to stand in the middle of Rome and say the name Sophia Loren, or Paris…

— Ali Smith

“Elisabeth had been listening to the programme in the bath. She'd switched the radio off after it and wondered if she'd be…

— Ali Smith

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

— Ali Smith

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

— Ali Smith

“I could lick it off with my tongue, if I had a tongue again, if my tongue was wet, and I could…

— Ali Smith

“How very disappointing truth is sometimes.”

— Ali Smith

“...he had simply typed the words something beautiful into the Google images box. Up came a picture of some leaves against the…

— Ali Smith

“Is there any escaping the junkshop of the self?”

— Ali Smith

What shop did this book come from? she asked. Her father was looking worried at the cooker. He always got rice wrong.…

— Ali Smith

What's the point of art, of any art, if it doesn't let us see with a little bit of objectivity where we…

— Ali Smith

If you can read the world as a construct, you can ask questions of the construct, and you can suggest ways to…

— Ali Smith

“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

“(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

“Believe me. Everything is meant.”

— Ali Smith

[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

“It’s on my head, Elisabeth says. That’s where it grows. And my face is also attached to my head.”

— Ali Smith

“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 really like jackets and tend to buy them to the detriment of my need of all the other items.

— Ali Smith

The things in life which try to pin us down are the things we have to try to work against.

— Ali Smith

“I would rather die and to go hell than wake up one day and find myself an inmate in that guesthouse of…

— 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…

— Ali Smith

“And they all lived happily ever after, until they died.”

— Ali Smith

“You're not the first person who was ever wounded by love. You're not the first person who ever knocked on my door.…

— Ali Smith

There's a point at which we make our lives, but we also take the path which is given to us.

— Ali Smith

“… it was a thing that has to fall to rise …”

— Ali Smith