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Quote of the Day Fresh quotes Topics Authors I'm Feeling Lucky Disable ads! 23 quotes by Ali Smith Ali Smith CBE FRSL (born 1962 in Inverness) is a Scottish writer. She was born to working-class parents, raised in a council house in Inverness and now lives in Cambridge. She studied at the University of Aberdeen and then at Newnham College, Cambridge, for a PhD that she never finished. She worked as a lecturer at University of Strathclyde until she fell ill with CFS/ME. Following this she became a full-time writer and now writes for The... Read full biography of Ali Smith → 1 2 Ctrl → We'd never expect to understand a piece of music on one listen, but we tend to believe we've read a book after reading it just once. 0 Short stories consume you faster. They're connected to brevity. With the short story, you are up against mortality. I know how tough they are as... → 0 How could 30 years be the blink-of-the-eye it felt? It was the difference between black-and-white footage of the Second World War and David Bowie on... → 0 Words are like untying a corset - you can move into this great space with them. 0 A game one of my sisters will play with me in my first year of being alive is called Good Baby, Bad Baby. This consists of being told I am a good... → 0 As for Aliki - if you were to stand in the middle of Rome and say the name Sophia Loren, or Paris and say the name Catherine Deneuve or Brigitte... → 0 What I know most is that the difference between us is what makes us interesting and attractive and problematic and exciting and vital to each other.... → 0 Fashion is fickle, and I was published because I was fashionable. Because I was gay. 0 I wouldn't call my work Modernist. I would rust if I try to think about labels. I'd feel like the Tin Man in 'The Wizard of Oz.' 0 I don't want a tombstone. You could carve on it 'She never actually wanted a tombstone.' 0 I'm blessed in my good friends, and some of them happen to be writers, though that's almost never what our friendships are about. And every... → 0 Nothing is harmful to literature except censorship, and that almost never stops literature going where it wants to go either, because literature has... → 0 We're well past the end of the century when time, for the first time, curved, bent, slipped, flash forwarded, and flashed back yet still kept... → 0 1 2 Ctrl → Add a quote!


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