You never know if you're a writer. You can't trust it. If you woke up and said, "I'm a writer," it would be gone. You wouldn't see anything for miles - even the dust would be running away.
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 a fo… - Ali Smith
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 a fo…
- Ali Smith
To be known so well by someone is an unimaginable gift. But to be imagined so well by someone is even better. - Ali Smith
To be known so well by someone is an unimaginable gift. But to be imagined so well by someone is even better.
Books mean all possibilities. They mean moving out of yourself, losing yourself, dying of thirst and living to your full. They mean everything. - Ali Smith
Books mean all possibilities. They mean moving out of yourself, losing yourself, dying of thirst and living to your full. They mean everything.
We all know our dates of birth but . . . every year there is another date that we pass over without knowing what it is but it is just as important it… - Ali Smith
We all know our dates of birth but . . . every year there is another date that we pass over without knowing what it is but it is just as important it…
All we are is eyes looking for the unbroken or the edges where the broken bits might fit each other. - Ali Smith
All we are is eyes looking for the unbroken or the edges where the broken bits might fit each other.
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. - Ali Smith
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.
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. - Ali Smith
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.
Do you come to art to be comforted, or do you come to art to be re-skinned? - Ali Smith
Do you come to art to be comforted, or do you come to art to be re-skinned?
Tonight I can smell the season the way it's usually only possible to at the very first moments of its return, before you're used to it, when you've f… - Ali Smith
Tonight I can smell the season the way it's usually only possible to at the very first moments of its return, before you're used to it, when you've f…
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