quotes by Ali Smith
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"And it was always the stories that needed the telling that gave us the rope we could cross any river with. They balanced us high above any crevasse. They made us be natural acrobats. They made us brave. They met us well. They changed us. It was in their nature to."
— Ali Smith (Girl Meets Boy: The Myth of Iphis)
— Ali Smith (Girl Meets Boy: The Myth of Iphis)
"There is a kind of poetry, bad and good, in evrything, everywhere we look."
— Ali Smith (Hotel World)
— Ali Smith (Hotel World)
"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 (Hotel World)
— Ali Smith (Hotel World)
"She can't be bothered with novels any more. She has read enough novels to last her a lifetime. They take too long. They say too much. Not that much needs to be said. They trail stories after them, like if you tied old tin cans to your ankles and then tried to walk about. (Hotel World)"
— Ali Smith
— Ali Smith
"I stopped making them up. It felt a bit wrong to. Instead, I listened to what they were saying. They were talking about literature, which happens to be interesting to me, though it wouldn't interest a lot of people."
— Ali Smith (The First Person: and Other Stories)
— Ali Smith (The First Person: and Other Stories)
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"The novel, he was saying, was a flabby old whore.
A flabby old whore! the older man said looking delighted.
She was serviceable, roomy, warm and familiar, the younger was saying, but really a bit used up, really a bit too slack and loose.
Slack and loose! the older said laughing.
Whereas the short story, by comparison, was a nimble goddess, a slim nymph. Because so few people had mastered the short story she was still in very good shape.
...I idly wondered how many of the books in my house were fuckable and how good they'd be in bed." "
— Ali Smith (The First Person: and Other Stories)
"The novel, he was saying, was a flabby old whore.
A flabby old whore! the older man said looking delighted.
She was serviceable, roomy, warm and familiar, the younger was saying, but really a bit used up, really a bit too slack and loose.
Slack and loose! the older said laughing.
Whereas the short story, by comparison, was a nimble goddess, a slim nymph. Because so few people had mastered the short story she was still in very good shape.
...I idly wondered how many of the books in my house were fuckable and how good they'd be in bed." "
— Ali Smith (The First Person: and Other Stories)
"The third person is another pair of eyes. The third person is a presentiment of God. ...... a way to tell the story.
It's a box for the endless music that's there between people, waiting to be played."
— Ali Smith (The First Person: and Other Stories)
It's a box for the endless music that's there between people, waiting to be played."
— Ali Smith (The First Person: and Other Stories)
