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Ali Smith Quotes

Scottish - Writer | 1962 -

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

You Want Never She Tombstone Wanted

Even things which seem separate and finished are infinitely connected and will infinitely connect. This connection happens as soon as you let it, as soon as you engage - as soon as you even attempt to engage.

You Connection Connected Will Engage

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.'

Life War Singing World Top Mars

Words are like untying a corset - you can move into this great space with them.

Great Words Space You Move Like

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.

Trust You Know Said Never See

I was at the tail end of the family. The next brother along was already seven years older than me. I remember growing up by myself, playing games by myself.

Family Myself Brother Me Growing Up

Fashion is fickle, and I was published because I was fashionable. Because I was gay.

Fashion Gay Fickle Because Published

A good argument, like a good dialogue, is always a proof of life, but I'd much rather go and read a book.

Life Good Book Argument Go Always

But everything written has style. The list of ingredients on the side of a cornflakes box has style. And everything literary has literary style. And style is integral to a work. How something is told correlates with - more - makes what's being told. A story is its style.

Work Style Story More Box Side

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.

Life Book Language Alive Page Need

I went to the top of Vesuvius and looked in.

My father is from Newark in Nottinghamshire and my mother is from the very north of Ireland. They've ended up in Scotland, where my father - well, both of them - will always be seen as having come from somewhere else.

Father Mother Will Always Up Seen

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