Ali Smith quotes - page 2

Always be reading something, he said. Even when we're not physically reading. How else will we read the world? Think of it as a constant. (Ali Smith)

I don't want a tombstone. You could carve on it 'She never actually wanted a tombstone.'

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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.

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I had a job, I got ill, I left the job to get better, and while I was getting better, I wrote some stories. I sent them to some publishers and the fifth one who replied said they'd take them. Then they went bankrupt. Then that bankrupt publisher got bought by a bigger firm. Story: in the end is the beginning, and in the beginning is the end.

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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 'Top of the Pops' singing 'Life on Mars.'

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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.

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Occupation: Scottish Writer
Born: 1962
Quotes count: 31

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