Unseasonal clothing actually only stands out when it's visibly uncomfortable. — Russell Smith Actually Copy Share Image
There is something insouciant and boyish about the sockless ankle in summer. — Russell Smith About Copy Share Image
I have never, ever, not once, met a writer who said he or she would never read a mystery or a story… — Russell Smith Ever Copy Share Image
What I don't understand is why men have decided that they like wearing hats indoors. It makes no sense to me. — Russell Smith Decided Copy Share Image
From its beginning, fan fiction has been written mostly by women. Originally, this was because of a dearth of interesting female characters… — Russell Smith Because Copy Share Image
What makes a publisher decide to market a book to a particular audience is not the subject matter but the style. — Russell Smith Audience Copy Share Image
Everyone likes to hear that their eccentricities and their addictions are simply evidence of their sensitive artistic nature. — Russell Smith Addiction Copy Share Image
There is actually no such thing as an Artist type. 'Artist' is just an economic designation, a box you tick on a… — Russell Smith Actually Copy Share Image
Only a tiny portion of music history involves a singer and a lyric. Songs in music are generally thought to be a… — Russell Smith Generally Copy Share Image
Canadian writers don't live in gated mansions; you can just talk to them when you see them lining up at the Second… — Russell Smith Canadian Copy Share Image
One of the qualities essential to writing exciting stories, whether for page or screen, is an ability to abandon one's morality. We… — Russell Smith Abandon Copy Share Image
A suit is just a suit: a practical garment, not a ceremonial robe; it can be worn out to dinner with friends… — Russell Smith Art Copy Share Image
Increasingly, to dismiss any popular artistic style is seen as the worst kind of snobbery. And snobbery, it goes without saying, is… — Russell Smith Any Copy Share Image
I don't see my artist friends as any more neurotic or addiction-prone than the others. The roommates I have had who were… — Russell Smith Air Copy Share Image
Most critics of gender division are women, and they're worried about girls and the roles presented for them by gendered entertainments. They… — Russell Smith About Copy Share Image
Possibly the strangest book ever made, the 'Codex Seraphinianus' is an encyclopedia of an imaginary world, with illegible calligraphy - it is… — Russell Smith Alphabet Copy Share Image
I went to Queen's - a fine university with the proudly stupidest frosh week in the country. This was, when I was… — Russell Smith Class Copy Share Image
Indeed, the whole point of the man bun, I have surmised, is to assert a high proficiency at yoga. There are no… — Russell Smith Assert Copy Share Image
Verisimilitude is something I am constantly seeking in fiction. I am looking for surface detail that makes something seem real. — Russell Smith Am Copy Share Image
Anything that encourages a boy to open a book, in a world of more violent and therefore more compelling video games, is… — Russell Smith Anything Copy Share Image
I am indeed completely nuts, but that doesn't mean I don't care about how I look. Sometimes, I admit, I will privilege… — Russell Smith About Copy Share Image
If you tell your husband or boyfriend for his whole life that he needn't worry about his clothes, that he couldn't possibly… — Russell Smith About Copy Share Image
Songs are great. I love songs. I sing them in the shower sometimes. They can be poignant or cheery or angry, and… — Russell Smith Angry Copy Share Image
I dislike turtlenecks at the best of times, as they are always unflattering to the imperfect male physique, but when worn in… — Russell Smith Always Copy Share Image
What I would love to see is art that explicitly addresses not personal intimacies but anonymous intimacies: the vast collections of facts… — Russell Smith About Copy Share Image
I was given a thick paperback copy of the 'Guinness Book of Records' when I was 11 years old, and I read… — Russell Smith About Copy Share Image
In the best stories, people are morally complex; they are flawed. We read them because the world is flawed, and we want… — Russell Smith Bad Copy Share Image
“What kind of theorist?' 'The worst kind,' murmured De Courcy. 'A prancing theorist.” — Russell Smith Theorist Copy Share Image
An Indian tribe is sovereign to the extent that the U.S. permits it to be sovereign. — Russell Smith Indian Copy Share Image
Frosh-week songs are meant to be offensive because offensive is rebellious. — Russell Smith Because Copy Share Image
The novel is just fine: It's novelists who aren't doing so well. — Russell Smith Books Copy Share Image
Most men are petrified of standing out in any way or being thought superficial. — Russell Smith Any Copy Share Image
I am so sick of being exhorted, as a writer, to improve the world by representing it in a more hopeful way. — Russell Smith Am Copy Share Image
Calls for the simplification of abstract or allusive art have always come from governments suspicious of artists themselves. This is why totalitarian… — Russell Smith Abstract Copy Share Image
Even in early adulthood, men can't be told what to wear; they can only be subtly moved by example, encouragement, and a… — Russell Smith Adulthood Copy Share Image
Wear your clothes with abandon, I say; don't keep them pristine as if for museums: They are meant to wear out. Then… — Russell Smith Abandon Copy Share Image
Fashion has always been in conflict with convention. Style involves some knowledge of both. But you can pretty much forget these seasonal… — Russell Smith Always Copy Share Image
