Author: Ali Smith

Quotes

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

- Ali Smith

People tend to see modernism as the opposite of a celebration. They see it as a fracturing and an art built round an absence, but it's really a celebration of our existence.

People tend to see modernism as the opposite of a celebration. They see it as a fracturing and an art built round an absence, but it's really a celebration of our existence.

- Ali Smith

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

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

- Ali Smith

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.

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.

- Ali Smith

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