292 Quotes by Ali Smith

I met an internationally esteemed writer at a literary party being given in her honor. She was wearing a beautiful pink, flouncy, frilly dress. I complimented her on it. She said, 'Ach, it's my nightgown. I couldn't decide what else to wear.'

When you fall in love with a book, something especially interesting and exciting is happening because of the way language works on us as human beings. And I love language.

If you can read the world as a construct, you can ask questions of the construct, and you can suggest ways to change the construct.

I grew up completely alone but with all the comforts of knowing I had a cushioning family structure around me - and yet I could free myself from it.