Quotes by scottish authors

Love and the imagination are connected. Ali Smith

Love Imagination Connected

Trees are great. Don't get me started about how clever they are, how oxygen-generous, how time-formed in inner cyclic circles, how they provide homes for myriad creatures, how - back when this country was covered in forests - the word for sky was an Old English word that meant 'tops of trees.' Ali Smith

Great Me Old Word Sky Country Clever Trees Back Circles Tops About Myriad How Covered Provide Forests Get Meant English Creatures Homes Inner Started

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. Ali Smith

You Change World Ways Construct Read Questions Ask Suggest

Art is one of the prime ways we have of opening ourselves and going beyond ourselves. That's what art is: it's the product of the human being in the world and imagination, all coming together. Ali Smith

Art Together Human Being World Imagination Ways Ourselves Prime Opening Beyond Coming Going Human Being Product

I have the feeling that all stories travel with an understory. Ali Smith

Travel Feeling Stories

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. Ali Smith

Love You Book Language Fall Way Something Exciting Because Human Human Beings Happening Interesting Us Works Beings

What are we doing in the world that we are denying people the right to an open education? And we are denying it by making education something you have to pay for so drastically. How are people supposed to afford this? Ali Smith

Education You People World Pay Drastically Something Open Supposed How Making Doing Denying Afford Right

I have a theory, now - that the whole of the Renaissance was peopled with girls dressed as boys so they could make art. Ali Smith

Art Girl Dressed Could Renaissance Make Boy Theory Whole Now

The things in life which try to pin us down are the things we have to try to work against. Ali Smith

Life Work Try Down Pin Which Against Us Things

I'm happy to have nothing, so long as I'm sure I've been working. Ali Smith

Happy Long Nothing Sure Been Working

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.' Ali Smith

Beautiful Honor Party Met Else Wear Wearing Dress Given Writer She Said Pink Being Literary Decide Esteemed Internationally Her

The world asks us to be quickly readable, but the thing about human beings is that we are more than one thing. We are multiple selves. We are massively contradictory. Ali Smith

World One Thing About More Massively Quickly Selves Contradictory Than Human Human Beings Ask Us Beings Multiple Thing

I like to walk when I can. Otherwise, it's the bus - while we still have them. Allan Guthrie

Walk Otherwise Like Still While Bus Them

There is a dark side to Allan Guthrie, but only at the weekends. Allan Guthrie

Dark Dark Side Side Guthrie Only Weekends

I'm really quite normal. My imagination has some serious kinks in it, that's all. Allan Guthrie

Imagination Some Kinks Normal Quite Really Serious

Maybe it's the buildings, maybe it's the weather, but you can see it affects us - that Scottish gallows humour; our tendency towards bleakness, to look at things in a negative way. Those definitely come out in my writing. Allan Guthrie

It's possible to be hard-boiled and not noir, just as it's possible to be noir and not hard-boiled. And it is possible to be both. People debate endlessly what is hard-boiled and what is noir. Allan Guthrie

People Debate Possible Both Noir Endlessly Just

I managed to fit most of the writing to evenings and weekends, and my wife has been very supportive. Allan Guthrie

Writing Wife Has-Been Weekends Supportive Most Been Fit Very Evenings

I grew up on a sugar plantation in Trinidad, on an expat estate, and that meant I had no idea about money until a lot later than most children. Andrea McLean

Money Sugar Later No Idea About Had Idea Most Until Lot Up Than Children Estate Grew Meant Plantation