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Ali Smith Quotes

A good argument, like a good dialogue, is always a proof of life, but I’d much rather go and read a book Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

[...] its small squares of fast-passing light, the early evening windows of the lives of hundreds of others Picture Quote #1

How could 30 years be the blink-of-the-eye it felt? It was the difference between black-and-white footage of the Second World War and David Bowie on ‘Top of the Pops’ singing ‘Life on Mars.’ Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

I want to be bored. But I can’t. But I really don’t want to be this thing that I’m having to be instead of being bored Picture Quote #1

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There is a kind of poetry, bad and good, in evrything, everywhere we look Picture Quote #1

It’s the word ‘artful’ it’s such a great word, with its dark and its light side, its art and its cunning, the craft and the crafty of it - I’ve been preoccupied with the word ‘artful’ and the twin notions of ‘cornucopia’ and ‘pickpocket’ it suggests for quite some time Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

But everything written has style. The list of ingredients on the side of a cornflakes box has style. And everything literary has literary style. And style is integral to a work. How something is told correlates with - more - makes what’s being told. A story is its style Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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Fashion is fickle, and I was published because I was fashionable. Because I was gay Picture Quote #1

Art makes nothing happen in a way that makes something happen Picture Quote #1

Remember you must live. remember you most love. remainder you mist leaf Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

$Happy is what you realize you are a fraction of a second before it’s too late Picture Quote #1$

We all know our dates of birth but... every year there is another date that we pass over without knowing what it is but it is just as important it is the other date the death date Picture Quote #1

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Books mean all possibilities. They mean moving out of yourself, losing yourself, dying of thirst and living to your full. They mean everything Picture Quote #1

There are things that can’t be said, because it’s hard to have to know them Picture Quote #1

Tonight I can smell the season the way it’s usually only possible to at the very first moments of its return, before you’re used to it, when you’ve forgotten its smell, then there it is back in the air and the flow of things shifting and resettling again Picture Quote #1

To be known so well by someone is an unimaginable gift. But to be imagined so well by someone is even better Picture Quote #1

The whole point is, we can forget. It’s important that we forget some things. Otherwise we’d go round the world carrying a hodload of stuff we just don’t need Picture Quote #1

Oh. To be filled with goodness then shattered by goodness, so beautifully mosaically fragmented by such shocking goodness Picture Quote #1

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I have thought for a long time that the way my clothes hang on me is more important than me inside them Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

The head has its confines. The head’s got those all right, and the heart. The heart has its reasons Picture Quote #1

I want to be bored. But I can’t. But I really don’t want to be this thing that I’m having to be instead of being bored Picture Quote #1

Nothing is harmful to literature except censorship, and that almost never stops literature going where it wants to go either, because literature has a way of surpassing everything that blocks it and growing stronger for the exercise Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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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 Quotes) 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 Quotes) [...] its small squares of fast-passing light, the early evening windows of the lives of hundreds of others. (Ali Smith Quotes) How could 30 years be the blink-of-the-eye it felt? It was the difference between black-and-white footage of the Second World War and David Bowie on ‘Top of the Pops’ singing ‘Life on Mars.’ (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. (Ali Smith Quotes) I want to be bored. But I can’t. But I really don’t want to be this thing that I’m having to be instead of being bored. (Ali Smith Quotes) There is a kind of poetry, bad and good, in evrything, everywhere we look (Ali Smith Quotes) It’s the word ‘artful’ it’s such a great word, with its dark and its light side, its art and its cunning, the craft and the crafty of it - I’ve been preoccupied with the word ‘artful’ and the twin notions of ‘cornucopia’ and ‘pickpocket’ it suggests for quite some time. (Ali Smith Quotes) 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 Quotes) But everything written has style. The list of ingredients on the side of a cornflakes box has style. And everything literary has literary style. And style is integral to a work. How something is told correlates with - more - makes what’s being told. A story is its style (Ali Smith Quotes) 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 (Ali Smith Quotes) 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 Quotes) Fashion is fickle, and I was published because I was fashionable. Because I was gay (Ali Smith Quotes) Art makes nothing happen in a way that makes something happen (Ali Smith Quotes) Remember you must live. remember you most love. remainder you mist leaf (Ali Smith Quotes) 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 Quotes) Happy is what you realize you are a fraction of a second before it’s too late (Ali Smith Quotes) We all know our dates of birth but... every year there is another date that we pass over without knowing what it is but it is just as important it is the other date the death date (Ali Smith Quotes) Books mean all possibilities. They mean moving out of yourself, losing yourself, dying of thirst and living to your full. They mean everything (Ali Smith Quotes) There are things that can’t be said, because it’s hard to have to know them (Ali Smith Quotes) Tonight I can smell the season the way it’s usually only possible to at the very first moments of its return, before you’re used to it, when you’ve forgotten its smell, then there it is back in the air and the flow of things shifting and resettling again (Ali Smith Quotes) To be known so well by someone is an unimaginable gift. But to be imagined so well by someone is even better (Ali Smith Quotes) The whole point is, we can forget. It’s important that we forget some things. Otherwise we’d go round the world carrying a hodload of stuff we just don’t need (Ali Smith Quotes) Oh. To be filled with goodness then shattered by goodness, so beautifully mosaically fragmented by such shocking goodness (Ali Smith Quotes) I have thought for a long time that the way my clothes hang on me is more important than me inside them (Ali Smith Quotes) 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 (Ali Smith Quotes) The head has its confines. The head’s got those all right, and the heart. The heart has its reasons (Ali Smith Quotes) I want to be bored. But I can’t. But I really don’t want to be this thing that I’m having to be instead of being bored (Ali Smith Quotes) Nothing is harmful to literature except censorship, and that almost never stops literature going where it wants to go either, because literature has a way of surpassing everything that blocks it and growing stronger for the exercise (Ali Smith Quotes) 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 Quotes)

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