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It is not enough just to identify a problem there are plenty of people who were very skilled at pointing out what was wrong with the world, but they were not always so adept at working out how these things could be righted.
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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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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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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Gracious acceptance is an art - an art which most never bother to cultivate. We think that we have to learn how to give, but we forget about accepting things, which can be much harder than giving.... Accepting another person's gift is allowing him to express his feelings for you.
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One of the most destructive things that's happening in modern society is that we are losing our sense of the bonds that bind people together - which can lead to nightmares of social collapse.
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When you allow people to do what they wish, then that is what they do. They stop doing the things they need to do.
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I have always taken the view that one should never hold against a man anything he says after twelve o'clock at night or after a glass or two of anything.
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Edinburgh used to be a haughty city.
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Any author of fiction will tell you that characters don't need to be told what to do.
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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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As a writer, you have to realize that people want to like the characters, so you have to be careful to keep them involved.
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I enjoy women's conversation, and I think that helps me to describe them in fiction.
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