292 Quotes by Ali Smith

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

Do you come to art to be comforted, or do you come to art to be re-skinned?

Stella Duffy is a writer who never lets you down.

The proper word for me," Robin Goodman says, "is me.

We all know our dates of birth but . . . every year there is another date that we pass over without knowing what it is but it is just as important it is the other date the death date.

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

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

I went to the top of Vesuvius and looked in.

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.