Actual Quote by Russell Smith

If you tell your husband or boyfriend for his whole life that he needn't worry about his clothes, that he couldn't possibly understand them,…

— Russell Smith

Canadian writers don't live in gated mansions; you can just talk to them when you see them lining up at the Second Cup.

— Russell Smith

I was given a thick paperback copy of the 'Guinness Book of Records' when I was 11 years old, and I read it gluttonously,…

— Russell Smith

I would rather be nuts than unattractive.

— Russell Smith

What I would love to see is art that explicitly addresses not personal intimacies but anonymous intimacies: the vast collections of facts about you…

— Russell Smith

Indeed, the whole point of the man bun, I have surmised, is to assert a high proficiency at yoga. There are no yoga-achievement badges,…

— Russell Smith

Anything that encourages a boy to open a book, in a world of more violent and therefore more compelling video games, is something I'm…

— Russell Smith

Verisimilitude is something I am constantly seeking in fiction. I am looking for surface detail that makes something seem real.

— Russell Smith

Increasingly, to dismiss any popular artistic style is seen as the worst kind of snobbery. And snobbery, it goes without saying, is unacceptable in…

— Russell Smith

What I don't understand is why men have decided that they like wearing hats indoors. It makes no sense to me.

— Russell Smith

I am indeed completely nuts, but that doesn't mean I don't care about how I look. Sometimes, I admit, I will privilege appearance over…

— Russell Smith

Everyone likes to hear that their eccentricities and their addictions are simply evidence of their sensitive artistic nature.

— Russell Smith