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Do you realise that people die of boredom in London suburbs? It's the second biggest cause of death amongs the English in general. Sheer boredom...
Alexander McCall Smith
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Alexander McCall Smith
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: August 24
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Alexander Sandy McCall Smith
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If you want to write, do two things - read lots of books and also, in your own writing, practise. Just write and write and then write again. persist. And never be put off or discouraged. You can do it!
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As a writer, I have readers who will have a range of political views. I don't think they look to me for political guidance.
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I enjoy women's conversation, and I think that helps me to describe them in fiction.
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Some of my characters are a mixture of various aspects of people I have met. others are pure invention.
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I would certainly never consider myself a Renaissance Man I'm not fit to look at the dust from the chariot wheels of many of those who have gone before me.
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Edinburgh used to be a haughty city.
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