Every novel presents a slice of life. A noir policier for example presents one slice, one that perhaps addresses social dysfunction or some sort of... →
Alexander McCall Smith
In life there is nothing more unexpected and surprising than the arrivals and departures of pleasure. If we find it in one place today, it is vain to... →
Alexander Smith
Every man's road in life is marked by the graves of his personal liking.
Trifles make up the happiness or the misery of human life.
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... →
Ali Smith
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... →
All we need to do, reader or writer, from first line to final page, is be as open as a book, and be alive to the life in language - on all its levels.
A good argument, like a good dialogue, is always a proof of life, but I'd much rather go and read a book.
I remember from my father's funeral that the minister kept using a metaphor about life of a prism. And I took that away like a cherished image.
Anna Deavere Smith
Making your life is ultimately an extraordinarily creative endeavor.