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Some of my characters are a mixture of various aspects of people I have met. others are pure invention.
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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Every novel presents a slice of life. A noir policier for example presents one slice, one that perhaps addresses social dysfunction or some sort of pathology, while mine present a slice that is more upbeat and affirmative.
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We don't forget.... Our heads may be small, but they are as full of memories as the sky may sometimes be full of swarming bees, thousands and thousands of memories, of smells, of places, of little things that happened to us and which came back, unexpectedly, to remind us who we are.
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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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Everything has been something before.
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The previously unloved may find it hard to believe that they are now loved that is such a miracle, they feel such a miracle.
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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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Reality television, which turned its eye on people who were doing nothing but being themselves, was the perfect expression of this trend [of narcissism]. Let's look at ourselves, it said. Aren't we fascinating?
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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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Everybody has friends they dislike people who they have slipped into relationships with, people they would not have chosen had they been more cautious, more circumspect.
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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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It's through the small things that we develop our moral imagination, so that we can understand the sufferings of others.
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We are all tempted, Mma. We are all tempted when it comes to cake.
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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 am often thanked by people for inventing the term traditionally built. The people who give me thanks for this are often traditionally built themselves.
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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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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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Most people want nothing to happen. That is the problem with governments these days. They want to do things all the time they are always very busy thinking of what things they can do next. That is not what people want. People want to be left alone to look after their cattle.
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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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Painters aren't expected to paint bleak pictures, are they?
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To lose a child ... was something that could end one's world. One could never get back to how it was before. The stars went out. The moon disappeared. The birds became silent.
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