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Alexander McCall Smith Quotes
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A very powerful theme in fiction is that of loss (Alexander McCall Smith Quotes)
Talking about pumpkins doesn’t make them grow (Alexander McCall Smith Quotes)
She was made for untidy rooms and rumpled beds (Alexander McCall Smith Quotes)
Edinburgh used to be a haughty city (Alexander McCall Smith Quotes)
I am capable of being idle (Alexander McCall Smith Quotes)
I’m interested in character and dialogue and exchange of ideas (Alexander McCall Smith Quotes)
International business, once allowed to stalk uncontrolled, killed the local, the small, the quirky (Alexander McCall Smith Quotes)
There is plenty of work for love to do (Alexander McCall Smith Quotes)
It’s a different sort of love taht puts up with illness. Old love (Alexander McCall Smith Quotes)
Manners are the basic building blocks of civil society (Alexander McCall Smith Quotes)
We think the world is ours forever, but we are little more than squatters (Alexander McCall Smith Quotes)
It is sometimes easier to be happy if you don’t know everything (Alexander McCall Smith Quotes)
There is room in history for all of us (Alexander McCall Smith Quotes)
I see no point in being despondent. We might as well enjoy ourselves during our brief tenure of this life (Alexander McCall Smith Quotes)
I enjoy women’s conversation, and I think that helps me to describe them in fiction (Alexander McCall Smith Quotes)
Some of my characters are a mixture of various aspects of people I have met. others are pure invention (Alexander McCall Smith Quotes)
Dating is really all about sex. In the conventional context, this means that the man invites the woman to go through a social encounter, the ultimate purpose of which is sexual engagement (Alexander McCall Smith Quotes)
We need to believe I think in justice. We need to run our lives as if justice existed. If we abandon a belief that justice will eventually be done, we make this world much more difficult for ourselves (Alexander McCall Smith Quotes)
Life consists of positive and negative features, and I think that it is permissible to write about both (Alexander McCall Smith Quotes)
Ritual is a terribly important, binding cement in a society. If we abandon formality and rituals, we’re actually weakening the relationships that exist between people that bind (Alexander McCall Smith Quotes)
When you allow people to do what they wish, then that is what they do. They stop doing the things they need to do (Alexander McCall Smith Quotes)
None of us knows how we will cope with snakes until the moment arises, and then most of us find out that we do not do it very well (Alexander McCall Smith Quotes)
And that, in a way, was the burden of being a philosopher: one knew what one had to do, but it was so often the opposite of what one really wanted to do (Alexander McCall Smith Quotes)
Our minds can come up with the most entertaining possibilities, if we let them. But most of the time, we keep them under far too close a check (Alexander McCall Smith Quotes)
It would be wonderful to have a guru; it would be like having a social worker or a personal trainer, not that people who had either of these necessarily appreciated the advice they received (Alexander McCall Smith Quotes)
But don’t we often lie to people we love, or not tell them things, precisely because we love them? (Alexander McCall Smith Quotes)
As a writer, you have to realize that people want to like the characters, so you have to be careful to keep them involved (Alexander McCall Smith Quotes)
It was time to take the pumpkin out of the pot and eat it. In the final analysis, that was what solved these big problems of life. You could think and think and get nowhere, but you still had to eat your pumpkin. That brought you down to earth. That gave you a reason for going on. Pumpkin (Alexander McCall Smith Quotes)
Antonia was very conscious of the corrosive power of envy and felt that it was this emotion, more than any other, which lay behind human unhappiness. People did not realize how widespread envy was (Alexander McCall Smith Quotes)
Many of my books are written from a female perspective. I rather enjoy the take that women have on the world, and certainly I enjoy the conversations that women have (Alexander McCall Smith Quotes)