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We are all tempted, Mma. We are all tempted when it comes to cake.
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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I just focus on getting the first scene right, with a few lines about the overall plot, and then the book grows organically.
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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 am capable of being idle.
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At night we are all strangers, even to ourselves.
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The point about love, the essential point, was that we loved what we loved. We did not choose. We just loved.
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There are many women whose lives would be immeasurably improved by widowhood, but one should not always point that out.
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But you cannot expect every writer to dwell on human suffering. I think my books do deal with grave issues. People who say they are too positive probably havent read them.
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Be content with who you are and where you are, and do whatever you can do to bring to others such contentment, and joy, and understanding that you have managed to find yourself.
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She was made for untidy rooms and rumpled beds.
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There is room in history for all of us.
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We should be careful of the insults we fling at others, lest they return and land at our feet, newly minted to apply to those who had first coined them.
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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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Edinburgh used to be a haughty city.
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Many of my books are written from a female perspective. I rather enjoy the take that women have on the world, and certainly I enjoy the conversations that women have.
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I'm interested in character and dialogue and exchange of ideas.
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Every small wrong, every minor act of cruelty, every act of petty bullying was symbolic of a greater wrong. And if we ignored these small things, then did it not blunt our outrage over the larger wrongs?
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If your ceiling should fall down, then you have lost a room, but gained a courtyard. Think of it that way.
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Oh I love gadgets and I pride myself on keeping at the cutting edge of technology.
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