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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.
Alexander McCall Smith
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Alexander McCall Smith
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: August 24
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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.
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Daughters could survive a powerful mother, but boys found it almost impossible. Such boys were often severely damaged and spent the rest of their lives running away from their mothers, or from anybody who remotely reminded them of their mothers either that, or they became their mothers, in a desperate, misguided act of psychological self defence.
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There is plenty of work for love to do.
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I write four books a year. I'm very fortunate that I write quickly around 3,500 words a day. Being strict about delineating my writing time and personal life, as well as keeping distractions at bay, is the only way I can accomplish this.
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My parents were very supportive and always encouraged us. My father was a gentle, nice man. My mother was quite a colourful character and a keen reader who encouraged me to write.
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I've also long since realized that the way to really engage children is to give out prizes it's amazing how it concentrates their minds.
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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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Manners are the basic building blocks of civil society.
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But don't we often lie to people we love, or not tell them things, precisely because we love them?
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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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Each of us is born into our own mysteries but the mystery of another might just take us in and embrace us. And then what a sense of homecoming, of belonging!
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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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Oh I love gadgets and I pride myself on keeping at the cutting edge of technology.
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I'm interested in character and dialogue and exchange of ideas.
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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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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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Small things may be important to us to be a sometime anything is sometimes something.
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I cannot see myself in a new car. I am a tiny white van person. That is what i want!
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How many of us are happy to be exactly where we are at any moment?...only the completely happy think that they are in the correct place.
Alexander McCall Smith
We are all tempted, Mma. We are all tempted when it comes to cake.
Alexander McCall Smith
