81 Quotes by Arthur Smith

Sometimes it's good to do something that you've never done before, so yesterday, I went out to buy Elton John's new album.

The real change that paintings undergo is in the perceptions of the viewer.

It is London fashion week, and once again I haven't been invited to any shows. This is upsetting given my well-known love of fashion, or, as I think of it, playing with the dressing-up box.

Don Quixote's 'Delusions' is an excellent read - far better than my own forthcoming travel book, 'Walking Backwards Across Tuscany.'

It is more interesting to be compared to someone famous, because it lets you gauge what perceptions people have about your appearance.

When a writer dies you get a higher standard of obituary.

I myself am pathetically impressed when I meet writers of very long novels. How can they spend so many hundreds of hours at the miserable, lonely pastime of creating fiction?

About every four years, someone says to me, 'I've got a friend who looks exactly like you.' What can you say to this?

I abhor nothing more than bumping into someone I know on the Tube.