All Russell Smith Quotes
- Verisimilitude is something I am constantly seeking in fiction. I am looking for surface detail that makes something seem real. Constantly
- Periods of nostalgia are impossible to predict or explain. Explain
- What is a literary festival? Imagine a sort of cross between school and church. There are no actual festivities; what there are is a lot… Actual
- Frosh-week songs are meant to be offensive because offensive is rebellious. Meant
- Universities can teach maturity. They can teach teenagers how to be adults, and that means to function outside a clique or a tribe. Adult
- The locale does not determine the dress code; the host does. Code
- A suit is just a suit: a practical garment, not a ceremonial robe; it can be worn out to dinner with friends or for a… Art
- Everyone likes to hear that their eccentricities and their addictions are simply evidence of their sensitive artistic nature. Addictions
- If you define eccentricity as creativity, then yes, creativity is eccentricity. Creativity
- Men over 60 often think that if they wear athletic shoes - soft-soled referee shoes or hiking shoes or actual running shoes - then they… Actual
- I have never, ever, not once, met a writer who said he or she would never read a mystery or a story set in some… Future
- Anyone who has set out to invent a purely imaginary story knows that the whole thing is fantasy, from beginning to end; there must be… Anyone
- Have you noticed the people most likely to be up in arms about governments apparently spying on us tend to be the most non-private people… Apparently
- What I would love to see is art that explicitly addresses not personal intimacies but anonymous intimacies: the vast collections of facts about you and… Address
- From its beginning, fan fiction has been written mostly by women. Originally, this was because of a dearth of interesting female characters in conventional sci-fi. Been
- Kindle Worlds is a clever way to monetize a formerly underground trend, and to enable its participants to be remunerated. But it will be of… Ambition
- Most men are petrified of standing out in any way or being thought superficial. Any
- My father was a graduate student at Oxford in the early 1960s, where the conventions and etiquette of clothing were crucial to the pervasive class… Class
- An Indian tribe is sovereign to the extent that the U.S. permits it to be sovereign. Extent