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Fashion is fickle, and I was published because I was fashionable. Because I was gay.

~Ali Smith

Topics: Because Fashion Fashionable Fickle Gay Published

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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.

~Ali Smith

Topics: Always Argument Book Dialogue Go Good Life Like Much Proof Rather Read

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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.

~Ali Smith

Topics: Being Box Everything How Ingredients Integral List Literary Makes More Side Something Story Style Work Written

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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.

~Ali Smith

Topics: Alive Book Final First Language Levels Life Line Need Open Page Reader Writer

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I went to the top of Vesuvius and looked in.

~Ali Smith

Topics: Looked Top

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My father is from Newark in Nottinghamshire and my mother is from the very north of Ireland. They've ended up in Scotland, where my father - well, both of them - will always be seen as having come from somewhere else.

~Ali Smith

Topics: Always Both Come Else Ended Father Having Ireland Mother North Scotland Seen Somewhere Somewhere Else Them Up Very Well Where Will

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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.

~Ali Smith

Topics: Alive Am Baby Bad Being Burst Consists First Game Good Laugh Life Me My Life Play Sisters Smile Stand Stead Tears Then Through Training Until Will Year I Am

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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

Topics: Anywhere Athens Catherine Elsewhere Greece Huge Known Like Little Marilyn Marilyn Monroe Middle Monroe Name Paris Rome Say Saying Sophia Stand Standing Star Were World You

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I wouldn't call my work Modernist. I would rust if I try to think about labels. I'd feel like the Tin Man in 'The Wizard of Oz.'

~Ali Smith

Topics: About Call Feel Labels Like Man Modernist Oz Rust Think Tin Try Wizard Wizard Of Oz Work Would

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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.

~Ali Smith

Topics: Along Back Bent Century Characters End First First Time Flash Kept Know Now Our Paragraph Past Rolling Search Speed Still Thoughts Time Traveling Tweet Well

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Biography

Nationality: Scottish

Type: Writer

Born: Unknown

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