Alexander McCall Smith Quotes & Sayings (Page 5)
Alexander McCall Smith quotes and sayings page 5 (76 year old writer). Here's quote # 41 through 50 out of the 51 we have for him.
“Writing fiction, I really just sit there and it just comes.”
“You do not have to ladle on the impasto to make a point about human frailty or ambitions.”
“You're always told by your publisher that you must only write one book a year and some years you should perhaps write none at all.”
“Baboons take a bit of getting to know but, apparently, once you break the ice, so to speak, they are complex and interesting creatures with elaborate societies.”
“Every single day, I get letters - very moving, overwhelming letters - testifying how much my books have meant to people in times of crisis in their lives, when they were very ill, say. If I ever doubted that writing could play an important part in people's lives, I don't doubt that now.”
“I would never inflict my bassoon on anybody really other than the long suffering audiences that come to the concerts of The Really Terrible Orchestra; which actually is really terrible.”
“I've always had a creative urge and I get immense satisfaction from creating something because it feels like I'm making sense of the world and imposing order on it.”
“I've certainly always had a very high regard for Botswana and so I paint a very good picture of the country and I've never pretended to be painting an entirely realistic picture.”
“Many of my books are written from a female perspective. I rather enjoy the take that women have on the world, and certainly I enjoy the conversations that women have.”
“My Botswana books are positive, and I've never really sought to deny that. They are positive. They present a very positive picture of the country. And I think that that is perfectly defensible given that there is so much written about Africa which is entirely negative.”
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