I am so sick of being exhorted, as a writer, to improve the world by representing it in a more hopeful way. — Russell Smith 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
Sadly, I don't really believe in the idea of timeless fashion. It's an oxymoron. If 'classic fashion' really never changed, we'd all… — Russell Smith Copy Share Image
Yes, the hunky barista looks even more terrifically masculine with three days' growth on his chin. Guys under 50 mostly do. But… — Russell Smith 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
Increasingly, to dismiss any popular artistic style is seen as the worst kind of snobbery. And snobbery, it goes without saying, is… — Russell Smith 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
The only thing that makes a book YA is that it is about teenagers, and it is written in a very conventional,… — Russell Smith Copy Share Image
I have argued about the future of fiction with jaded novelists, far-seeing postmodernists, technologists, television critics. The argument that future generations will… — Russell Smith 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
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
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 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 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 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 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 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 Copy Share Image
I'm in favour of hipster androgyny: Any trend that permits men to rebel against strict gender rules of appearance is going to… — Russell Smith Copy Share Image
Guys think that the military associations of camo are going to make them look tough, as if they might just break out… — Russell Smith 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 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 Copy Share Image
The YA category is an entirely new one, and seems to have more to do with readability than with age group or… — Russell Smith 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 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 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
Conformism is essential to the group coherence and 'spirit.' The whole impetus behind tribalism of this kind is conservative: Belonging to the… — Russell Smith 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
Here is a fundamental conflict in educated society: We are not supposed to value beauty so highly, and yet who can defend… — Russell Smith 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 Copy Share Image
