Ali Smith
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born
January 01, 1962
gender
female
place of birth
United Kingdom
genre
Literature & Fiction
about this author
Ali Smith is a writer, born in 1962 in Inverness, Scotland, to working-class parents. She was raised in a council house in Inverness and now lives in Cambridge. She studied at Aberdeen, and then at Cambridge, for a Ph.D. that was never finished. In a 2004 interview with writing magazine Mslexia, she talked briefly about the difficulty of becoming ill with chronic fatigue syndrome for a year and how it forced her to give up her job as a lecturer at University of Strathclyde to focus on what she really wanted to do: writing. Openly gay, she has been with her partner Sarah Wood for 17 years and dedicates all her books to her.
books by Ali Smith
combine editionsavg rating: 3.40 | 1727 ratings | 57 distinct works
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The Accidental (Paperback) by Ali Smith avg rating 3.14 — 699 ratings — published 2005 12 editions |
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Hotel World (Paperback) by Ali Smith avg rating 3.54 — 324 ratings — published 2001 8 editions |
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Girl Meets Boy: The Myth of Iphis (Hardcover) by Ali Smith avg rating 3.62 — 129 ratings — published 2007 8 editions |
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The Whole Story and Other Stories (Paperback) by Ali Smith avg rating 3.87 — 93 ratings — published 2003 3 editions |
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Like (Hardcover) by Ali Smith avg rating 4.00 — 38 ratings — published 1997 3 editions |
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Other Stories and Other Stories (Paperback) by Ali Smith avg rating 4.21 — 28 ratings — published 1999 3 editions |
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Free Love and Other Stories (Paperback) by Ali Smith avg rating 4.21 — 28 ratings — published 1995 2 editions |
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Laws of the Bandit Queens: Words to Live by from 35 of Today's Most Revolutionary Women (Paperback) by Ali Smith avg rating 3.62 — 8 ratings — published 2002 |
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Ali Smith's Supersonic 70s (Pocket Penguin 70 Years #30) by Ali Smith avg rating 3.33 — 6 ratings — published 2005 |
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The First Person: and Other Stories (Hardcover) by Ali Smith avg rating 4.00 — 2 ratings — published 2008 3 editions |
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quotes by Ali Smith
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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)
"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)
"Happy is what you realize you are a fraction of a second before it's too late."
— Ali Smith
— Ali Smith
