List of Ali Smith Quotes

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Ali Smith
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[property] is a brilliant, chillingly revelatory piece of fiction, a work of craft, economy and such good merciless observation-one of those rare, crucial novels illuminating a history we think we know and understand so that after we've read it we'll never forget its truths.
Thinking Fiction Pieces
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.
Men Thinking Trying
As for aliki - if you were to stand in the middle of rome and say the name sophia loren, or paris and say the name catherine deneuve or brigitte bardot, or l.a. and the name marilyn monroe, it's like standing in athens, or anywhere in wide-flung greece, and saying aliki vougiouklaki. a huge star - and so little known elsewhere in the world.
Stars Names Paris
A game one of my sisters will play with me in my first year of being alive is called good baby, bad baby. this consists of being told i am a good baby until i smile and laugh, then being told i am a bad baby until i burst into tears. this training will stand me in good stead all through my life.
Baby Games Play
The head has its confines. the head’s got those all right, and the heart. the heart has its reasons.
Heart Reason
Outside the leaves on the trees constricted slightly; they were the deep done green of the beginning of autumn. it was a sunday in september. there would only be four. the clouds were high and the swallows would be here for another month or so before they left for the south before they returned again next summer.
Summer Autumn Sunday
It's about the connecting force from form to form. it's the toe bone connecting to the shoulder bone. it's the bacterial kick of life force, something growing out of nothing, forming itself out of something else. form never stops. and form is always environmental.
Environmental Growing Toes
Thomas teal, a luminous translator of jansson's twin talent for surface and depth, simplicity and reverberation in language, and someone who knows exactly how to convey her gift for sensing the meaning embedded in the most mundane act or turn of phrase.
Simplicity Depth Phrases
The proper word for me," robin goodman says, "is me.
Robins Goodman
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.
Brother Growing Up Years
What shop did this book come from? she asked. her father was looking worried at the cooker. he always got rice wrong. i don't know, brooksie, he said, i don't remember. that was unimaginable, not remembering where a book has come from! and where it was bought from! that was part of the whole history, the whole point, of any book that you owned! and when you picked it up later in the house at home, you knew, you just knew by looking and having it in your hand, where it came from and where you got it and when and why you'd decided to buy it.
Father Book Home
Fashion is fickle, and i was published because i was fashionable. because i was gay.
Fashion Gay Fickle
  • Born: 1962
  • Occupation: Writer
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