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Ali Smith CBE FRSL is a Scottish author, playwright, academic and journalist. Sebastian Barry described her in 2016 as "Scotland's Nobel laureate-in-waiting". Wikipedia  

✵ 1962
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Works

Autumn
Autumn
Ali Smith
Hotel World
Hotel World
Ali Smith
How to Be Both
Autumn
Autumn
Ali Smith
Hotel World
Hotel World
Ali Smith
How to Be Both
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Famous Ali Smith Quotes

“Books mean all possibilities. They mean moving out of yourself, losing yourself, dying of thirst and living to your full. They mean everything.”

Ali Smith

“To be known so well by someone is an unimaginable gift. But to be imagined so well by someone is even better.”

Ali Smith

Source: Artful

“She likes to read, she reads all the time, and she prefers to be reading several things at once, she says it gives endless perspective and dimension.”

Ali Smith book Autumn

Source: Autumn

“Always be reading something, he said. Even when we're not physically reading. How else will we read the world? Think of it as a constant.”

Ali Smith book Autumn

Source: Autumn

“Art makes nothing happen in a way that makes something happen.”

Ali Smith book How to Be Both

Source: How to Be Both

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