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As a writer I've learned certain lessons. One of them is to be careful about how you put a view, and to bear in mind how easily and readily you'll be misinterpreted.
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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Do not take on a traditionally built person unless you are prepared for a heavyweight bout.
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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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Any author of fiction will tell you that characters don't need to be told what to do.
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The good were worthy of note because they battled and that battle was a great story, whereas the evil were evil because of moral laziness, or weakness, and that was ultimately a dull and uninteresting affair.
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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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The telling of a story, like virtually everything in this life, was always made all the easier by a cup of tea.
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It is sometimes easier to be happy if you don't know everything.
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She was made for untidy rooms and rumpled beds.
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Who can't like pigs? They're wonderful creatures! I've always liked pigs.
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Ritual is a terribly important, binding cement in a society. If we abandon formality and rituals, we're actually weakening the relationships that exist between people that bind.
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The Okavango Delta is an astonishing sight: the great Okavango River, rather than flow towards the sea, flows inland, into the sands of the Kalahari.
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A wedding was a strange ceremony, she thought, with all those formal words, those solemn vows made by one to another whereas the real question that should be put to the two people involved was a very simple one. Are you happy with each other? was the only question that should be asked to which they both should reply, preferably in unison, Yes.
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Painters aren't expected to paint bleak pictures, are they?
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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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Writers obviously have to bear witness to the harsh face of the age.
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I have three older sisters, so we were a reasonably large family and, in general, a happy one.
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Botswana is actually very peaceful. It's democratic. It never was in debt. They've been fortunate, they've had diamonds.
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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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Life consists of positive and negative features, and I think that it is permissible to write about both.
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