Quotes by Ali Smith

Ali Smith

A game one of my sisters will play with me in my first year of being alive is called Good Baby, Bad Baby. This consists of being told I am a good baby until I smile and laugh, then being told I am a bad baby until I burst into tears. This training will stand me in good stead all through my life.

Baby

Games

Play

A good argument, like a good dialogue, is always a proof of life, but I’d much rather go and read a book.

Argument

Book

Proof

All we are is eyes looking for the unbroken or the edges where the broken bits might fit each other.

Broken

Eye

Might

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.

Book

Finals

Needs

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.

Brave

Rivers

Rope

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.

Invisible

Narrative

Two

Google is so strange. It promises everything, but everything isn’t there. You type in the words for what you need, and what you need becomes superfluous in an instant, shadowed instantaneously by the things you really need, and none of them answerable by Google.

Google

Needs

Promise

I don’t want a tombstone. You could carve on it ‘She never actually wanted a tombstone.’

Headstone

Tombstone

Want

I went to the top of Vesuvius and looked in.

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.

Blessed

Good Friend

Two

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Argument

Autumn

Baby

Believe

Blessed

Book

Brave

Broken

Depth

Eye

Filled

Finals

Games

Good Friend

Goodness

Google

Hard

Headstone

Heart

Important

Invisible

Kind

Known

Knows

Looks

Might

Narrative

Needs

Phrases

Play

Promise

Proof

Reading

Reason

Rivers

Rope

Said

Saws

Shattered

Simplicity

Summer

Sunday

Tombstone

Two

Unimaginable

Want

Wells

World

Would Be

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Quotes by Ali Smith

Ali Smith

A game one of my sisters will play with me in my first year of being alive is called Good Baby, Bad Baby. This consists of being told I am a good baby until I smile and laugh, then being told I am a bad baby until I burst into tears. This training will stand me in good stead all through my life.

A good argument, like a good dialogue, is always a proof of life, but I’d much rather go and read a book.

All we are is eyes looking for the unbroken or the edges where the broken bits might fit each other.

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.

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.

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.

Google is so strange. It promises everything, but everything isn’t there. You type in the words for what you need, and what you need becomes superfluous in an instant, shadowed instantaneously by the things you really need, and none of them answerable by Google.

I don’t want a tombstone. You could carve on it ‘She never actually wanted a tombstone.’

I went to the top of Vesuvius and looked in.

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.

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