Quotes by : Ali Smith

It's so warm it's almost friendly. A friendly work of art. I've never thought such a thing in my life.....

And after that, I watched our house collapse in on itself and I spent some time lying in the rubble.....

Is there any escaping the junkshop of the self?

And it suggests this truth about the place where aesthetic form meets the human mind. For even if we....

She had not expected, out in the world, to find herself quite so much the wrong sort of person.

This isn’t fiction, the man says. This is the Post Office.

Tonight I can smell the season the way it's usually only possible to at the very first moments of its....

It is perhaps rather fine, after all, being dead. Highly underrated in the modern western world.

Democracy or reading, democracy of space: our public library tradition, wherever we live in the wide....

Maybe it's easier to talk to someone who won't ever actually hear what you say.