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I'm blessed in my good friends, and some of them happen to be writers, though that's almost never what our friendships are about. And every writer I've ever read, living or dead, has in one way or another helped and inspired. I have a feeling it's important not to mix the two up.
- Ali Smith
#Blessed
#Dead
#Good
#Important
#Way
You never know what you're going to end up with when you sit down to write something. At the end, if it holds, it can do this multifarious thing - which is to open things rather than close them, to make them bigger rather than smaller, to cross those divides which we live every day of our lives.
- Ali Smith
#Day
#Every Day
#Know
#Live
#Never
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.
- Ali Smith
#Beginning
#Better
#End
#Getting Better
What I know most is that the difference between us is what makes us interesting and attractive and problematic and exciting and vital to each other. Give me difference over indifference any day.
- Ali Smith
#Attractive
#Day
#Difference
#Know
#Me
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
#Believe
#Book
#Music
#Never
#Understand
A good argument, like a good dialogue, is always a proof of life, but I'd much rather go and read a book.
- Ali Smith
#Argument
#Book
#Go
#Good
#Life
I wouldn't call my work Modernist. I would rust if I try to think about labels. I'd feel like the Tin Man in 'The Wizard of Oz.'
- Ali Smith
#Feel
#Man
#Rust
#Try
#Work
I'm quite good on the harmonica and can get a tune out of most musical instruments, so long as the tune is 'Oh Susannah.'
- Ali Smith
#Get
#Good
#Long
#Oh
#Tune
What's the point of art, of any art, if it doesn't let us see with a little bit of objectivity where we are?
- Ali Smith
#Art
#Objectivity
#Point
#See
#Us
Trees are great. Don't get me started about how clever they are, how oxygen-generous, how time-formed in inner cyclic circles, how they provide homes for myriad creatures, how - back when this country was covered in forests - the word for sky was an Old English word that meant 'tops of trees.'
- Ali Smith
#Clever
#Country
#Great
#Me
#Sky
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 form, but they're also a total joy.
- Ali Smith
#Connected
#Joy
#Know
#Story
#Tough
We're well past the end of the century when time, for the first time, curved, bent, slipped, flash forwarded, and flashed back yet still kept rolling along. We know it all now, with our thoughts traveling at the speed of a tweet, our 140 characters in search of a paragraph. We're post-history. We're post-mystery.
- Ali Smith
#First Time
#Past
#Search
#Thoughts
#Time
Every great narrative is at least two narratives, if not more - the thing that is on the surface and then the things underneath which are invisible.
- Ali Smith
#Great
#Invisible
#More
#Things
#Two
Words are like untying a corset - you can move into this great space with them.
- Ali Smith
#Corset
#Great
#Like
#Space
#Words
Love and the imagination are connected.
- Ali Smith
#Connected
#Imagination
#Love
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