Alexander McCall Smith Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“Serial novels have an unexpected effect; they hook the writer as well as the reader.”

“There is this intimacy still in Botswana. It's a country of just under two million people, and there's this sense of connectedness, in that people tend to be related to one another.”

“I am capable of being idle.”

“New York is a wonderful place to be up, an awful place to be down.”

“That my philosophy of life is, as far as possible, one of enjoyment. I'm not nihilistic.”

“The Okavango Delta is an astonishing sight: the great Okavango River, rather than flow towards the sea, flows inland, into the sands of the Kalahari.”

“Wherever I go in the world, people all know about Scotland Street and are always asking me about what's going to happen to the characters next.”

“Edinburgh used to be a haughty city.”

“I have three older sisters, so we were a reasonably large family and, in general, a happy one.”

“Painters aren't expected to paint bleak pictures, are they?”