Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
A good argument, like a good dialogue, is always a proof of life, but I'd much rather go and read a book.
Ali Smith
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Ali Smith
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: January 1
Author
Journalist
Playwright
Writer
Like
Argument
Rather
Read
Book
Much
Good
Always
Dialogue
Life
Proof
More quotes by Ali Smith
It is important to know the stories and histories of things, even if all we know is that we don't know.
Ali Smith
Thomas Teal, a luminous translator of Jansson's twin talent for surface and depth, simplicity and reverberation in language, and someone who knows exactly how to convey her gift for sensing the meaning embedded in the most mundane act or turn of phrase.
Ali Smith
The head has its confines. The head’s got those all right, and the heart. The heart has its reasons.
Ali Smith
As for Aliki - if you were to stand in the middle of Rome and say the name Sophia Loren, or Paris and say the name Catherine Deneuve or Brigitte Bardot, or L.A. and the name Marilyn Monroe, it's like standing in Athens, or anywhere in wide-flung Greece, and saying Aliki Vougiouklaki. A huge star - and so little known elsewhere in the world.
Ali Smith
Happy is what you realize you are a fraction of a second before it's too late.
Ali Smith
I'm blessed in my good friends, and some of them happen to be writers, though that's almost never what our friendships are about. And every writer I've ever read, living or dead, has in one way or another helped and inspired. I have a feeling it's important not to mix the two up.
Ali Smith
Books mean all possibilities. They mean moving out of yourself, losing yourself, dying of thirst and living to your full. They mean everything.
Ali Smith
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.
Ali Smith
Words are like untying a corset - you can move into this great space with them.
Ali Smith
I went to the top of Vesuvius and looked in.
Ali Smith
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.
Ali Smith
Then I saw her smile so close to my eye that there was nothing to see but the smile and the thought came into my head that I’d never been inside a smile before. Who’d have thought being inside a smile would be so ancient and so modern both at once
Ali Smith
Tonight I can smell the season the way it's usually only possible to at the very first moments of its return, before you're used to it, when you've forgotten its smell, then there it is back in the air and the flow of things shifting and resettling again.
Ali Smith
Outside the leaves on the trees constricted slightly they were the deep done green of the beginning of autumn. It was a Sunday in September. There would only be four. The clouds were high and the swallows would be here for another month or so before they left for the south before they returned again next summer.
Ali Smith
There are things that can't be said, because it's hard to have to know them.
Ali Smith
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.
Ali Smith
remember you must live. remember you most love. remainder you mist leaf.
Ali Smith
I have thought for a long time that the way my clothes hang on me is more important than me inside them.
Ali Smith
The proper word for me, Robin Goodman says, is me.
Ali Smith
Nothing is harmful to literature except censorship, and that almost never stops literature going where it wants to go either, because literature has a way of surpassing everything that blocks it and growing stronger for the exercise.
Ali Smith
