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We're well past the end of the century when time, for the first time, curved, bent, slipped, flash forwarded, and flashed back yet still kept rolling along. We know it all now, with our thoughts traveling at the speed of a tweet, our 140 characters in search of a paragraph. We're post-history. We're post-mystery.

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Ali Smith
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: January 1
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It is important to know the stories and histories of things, even if all we know is that we don't know.
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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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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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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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All we are is eyes looking for the unbroken or the edges where the broken bits might fit each other.
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Happy is what you realize you are a fraction of a second before it's too late.
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I went to the top of Vesuvius and looked in.
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To be known so well by someone is an unimaginable gift. But to be imagined so well by someone is even better.
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All we need to do, reader or writer, from first line to final page, is be as open as a book, and be alive to the life in language - on all its levels.
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Short stories consume you faster. They're connected to brevity. With the short story, you are up against mortality. I know how tough they are as a form, but they're also a total joy.
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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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Books mean all possibilities. They mean moving out of yourself, losing yourself, dying of thirst and living to your full. They mean everything.
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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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Fashion is fickle, and I was published because I was fashionable. Because I was gay.
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We'd never expect to understand a piece of music on one listen, but we tend to believe we've read a book after reading it just once.
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Oh. To be filled with goodness then shattered by goodness, so beautifully mosaically fragmented by such shocking goodness.
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It's about the connecting force from form to form. It's the toe bone connecting to the shoulder bone. It's the bacterial kick of life force, something growing out of nothing, forming itself out of something else. Form never stops. And form is always environmental.
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Every great narrative is at least two narratives, if not more - the thing that is on the surface and then the things underneath which are invisible.
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There is a kind of poetry, bad and good, in evrything, everywhere we look.
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Words are like untying a corset - you can move into this great space with them.
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