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If you lose sight of the smaller accomplishments, you end up with an imbalance in your life.

~Alexander Mccall Smith

Topics: Accomplishments End Imbalance Life Lose Sight Smaller Up You Your

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I write four books a year. I'm very fortunate that I write quickly; around 3,500 words a day. Being strict about delineating my writing time and personal life, as well as keeping distractions at bay, is the only way I can accomplish this.

~Alexander Mccall Smith

Topics: About Accomplish Around Bay Being Books Day Distractions Fortunate Four Keeping Life Only Personal Personal Life Quickly Strict Time Very Way Well Words Write Writing Year I Can I Write

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I just focus on getting the first scene right, with a few lines about the overall plot, and then the book grows organically.

~Alexander Mccall Smith

Topics: About Book Few First Focus Getting Grows Just Lines Organically Overall Plot Right Scene Then

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A very powerful theme in fiction is that of loss.

~Alexander Mccall Smith

Topics: Fiction Loss Powerful Theme Very

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There is this intimacy still in Botswana. It's a country of just under two million people, and there's this sense of connectedness, in that people tend to be related to one another.

~Alexander Mccall Smith

Topics: Another Country Intimacy Just Million Million People People Related Sense Still Tend Two

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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.

~Alexander Mccall Smith

Topics: Be Careful Careful Characters Involved Keep Like People Realize Them Want Writer You

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With '44 Scotland Street' I found myself having to work out how a daily novel works, and it is completely different to a conventional novel.

~Alexander Mccall Smith

Topics: Conventional Daily Different Found Having How Myself Novel Out Scotland Street Work Work Out Works

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Baboons take a bit of getting to know but, apparently, once you break the ice, so to speak, they are complex and interesting creatures with elaborate societies.

~Alexander Mccall Smith

Topics: Apparently Bit Break Complex Creatures Elaborate Getting Ice Interesting Know Once Societies Speak Take You

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The point of opera is that people are moved by the emotions and music.

~Alexander Mccall Smith

Topics: Emotions Moved Music Opera People Point

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New York is a wonderful place to be up, an awful place to be down.

~Alexander Mccall Smith

Topics: Awful Down New New York Place Up Wonderful Wonderful Place York

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Biography

Nationality: Scottish

Type: Writer

Born: August 24th, 1948

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