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Russell Smith Quotes

Verisimilitude is something I am constantly seeking in fiction. I am looking for surface detail that makes something seem real.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: canadian
Birth: August 2, 1963

Topics

I Am Detail Looking Real Fiction

Alcohol is a class of drugs that we call 'the sedatives.' And what you're doing is just knocking your brain out. You're not putting it into natural sleep.

Sleep Brain Alcohol Doing You Class

The strength of the nation ultimately depends upon the strength of family and community.

Jeff Fortenberry

Family Strength Community Nation

Irony, I feel, is a very high form of morality.

Feel Morality Irony High I Feel

When I'm doing an accent, you shouldn't notice it for a while, if I'm doing it right.

Doing You Right Notice Accent While

When I was younger ,I used to want to be, like, a back-up dancer, and my mom was like, 'Well, you know, you can do that, but you might want to choose another career.'

Mom You Choose Career Know Want

Sting is much better at switching off than I am. He can concentrate and meditate whatever might be going on in the room and is far more disciplined.

I Am Better More Whatever Room Off

My dream was to be known as a writer and to be able to produce at least one book that would be read by people. That dream came true with the publication of my first novel - and all the rest has been a sweet bonus.

People Sweet Book Rest Dream True

A dwarf standing on the shoulders of a giant may see farther than a giant himself.

See Standing Shoulders May Giant

There are people that very strongly identify themselves as gay and then lesbian, and then I think there are a lot of people who are kind of some percentage or some version of that.

People Think Gay Kind Lesbian Who

There exists everywhere a medium in things, determined by equilibrium.

Dmitri Mendeleev

Determined Things Equilibrium Medium

I don't ever see myself retiring totally from music, because I have a genuine love and passion for it.

Love Music Passion Myself Genuine

You have to know the weeds - to have lived in them - to delegate. I wouldn't want to be a leader who had never lived in the weeds.

Leader You Know Want Never Weeds

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