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There is a kind of poetry, bad and good, in evrything, everywhere we look.

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Ali Smith
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: January 1
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You never know if you're a writer. You can't trust it. If you woke up and said, I'm a writer, it would be gone. You wouldn't see anything for miles - even the dust would be running away.
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The head has its confines. The head’s got those all right, and the heart. The heart has its reasons.
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I had a job, I got ill, I left the job to get better, and while I was getting better, I wrote some stories. I sent them to some publishers and the fifth one who replied said they'd take them. Then they went bankrupt. Then that bankrupt publisher got bought by a bigger firm. Story: in the end is the beginning, and in the beginning is the end.
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I want to be bored. But I can't. But I really don't want to be this thing that I'm having to be instead of being bored.
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But everything written has style. The list of ingredients on the side of a cornflakes box has style. And everything literary has literary style. And style is integral to a work. How something is told correlates with - more - makes what's being told. A story is its style.
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A good argument, like a good dialogue, is always a proof of life, but I'd much rather go and read a book.
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I don't want a tombstone. You could carve on it 'She never actually wanted a tombstone.'
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The whole point is, we can forget. It’s important that we forget some things. Otherwise we’d go round the world carrying a hodload of stuff we just don’t need.
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And it was always the stories that needed the telling that gave us the rope we could cross any river with. They balanced us high above any crevasse. They made us be natural acrobats. They made us brave. They met us well. They changed us. It was in their nature to.
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I was at the tail end of the family. The next brother along was already seven years older than me. I remember growing up by myself, playing games by myself.
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