Wish it, believe it, and it will be so.

- Deborah Smith

I read The Vegetarian and fell in love with it. A year later, I was invited to go and speak at the London Book Fair (which I'd never even heard of be…

- Deborah Smith

Happy people look young. You’re really afraid of getting older, aren’t you? You should only be afraid of getting less happy.

- Deborah Smith

We are all bodies of water, guarding the mystery of our depths, but some of us have more to guard than others.

- Deborah Smith

Flattery is a lie covered in a bed of flowery words.

- Deborah Smith

Life doesn't take itself seriously for long. Joy leaves an imprint even in the hardest sorrow.

- Deborah Smith

Hwang Jung-eun is one of the brightest stars of the new South Korean generation - she's Han Kang's favourite, and the novel we're publishing scooped …

- Deborah Smith

The hardest memories are the pieces of what might have been.

- Deborah Smith

There’s something very freeing about losing the anchors that have always defined you. Frightening, sad, but exhilarating in a poignant way, as well. …

- Deborah Smith