A good argument, like a good dialogue, is always a proof of life, but I'd much rather go and read a book.
Ali SmithI have thought for a long time that the way my clothes hang on me is more important than me inside them.
Ali SmithIt's about the connecting force from form to form. It's the toe bone connecting to the shoulder bone. It's the bacterial kick of life force, something growing out of nothing, forming itself out of something else. Form never stops. And form is always environmental.
Ali SmithBut everything written has style. The list of ingredients on the side of a cornflakes box has style. And everything literary has literary style. And style is integral to a work. How something is told correlates with - more - makes what's being told. A story is its style.
Ali Smith