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
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
Universities can teach maturity. They can teach teenagers how to be adults, and that means to function outside a clique or a… — Russell Smith Adult 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
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 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
“What kind of theorist?' 'The worst kind,' murmured De Courcy. 'A prancing theorist.” — Russell Smith Copy Share Image
Anyone who has set out to invent a purely imaginary story knows that the whole thing is fantasy, from beginning to end;… — Russell Smith About 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
It's great that I can look up a fact instantly on my cellphone, but I miss the days in my room with… — Russell Smith Alone Copy Share Image
“It used to be that you could get a lot of recognition by writing about Canada, as long as it was about… — Russell Smith Assholes Copy Share Image
All coffee shops now have WiFi. Why bring a book when you could be wittily attacking some idiot columnist on Twitter, or… — Russell Smith Attacking Copy Share Image
Most men are petrified of standing out in any way or being thought superficial. — Russell Smith Any Copy Share Image
My son craves picture books about Transformers and Ninja Turtles and the Hulk; they show one fantastic creature smashing or zapping another… — Russell Smith About Copy Share Image
Here is a fundamental conflict in educated society: We are not supposed to value beauty so highly, and yet who can defend… — Russell Smith Against Copy Share Image
If you define eccentricity as creativity, then yes, creativity is eccentricity. — Russell Smith Creativity Copy Share Image
Men over 60 often think that if they wear athletic shoes - soft-soled referee shoes or hiking shoes or actual running shoes… — Russell Smith Actual Copy Share Image
My father was a graduate student at Oxford in the early 1960s, where the conventions and etiquette of clothing were crucial to… — Russell Smith Class Copy Share Image
Personally, I see little distinction between an artistic mentality and criminality. You couldn't possibly create a compelling story without some wickedness or… — Russell Smith Art Copy Share Image
Have you noticed the people most likely to be up in arms about governments apparently spying on us tend to be the… — Russell Smith About Copy Share Image
The novel is just fine: It's novelists who aren't doing so well. — Russell Smith Books Copy Share Image
Frosh-week songs are meant to be offensive because offensive is rebellious. — Russell Smith Because Copy Share Image
No matter how fine your suit and your shoes, you will remind everyone that you are not yet a grownup man by… — Russell Smith College Copy Share Image
Kindle Worlds is a clever way to monetize a formerly underground trend, and to enable its participants to be remunerated. But it… — Russell Smith Ambition Copy Share Image
If people didn't read books on the subway, underground journeys would be dreary. — Russell Smith Books Copy Share Image
