I want to be bored. But I can't. But I really don't want to be this thing that I'm having to be instead of being bored.
Ali SmithI had a job, I got ill, I left the job to get better, and while I was getting better, I wrote some stories. I sent them to some publishers and the fifth one who replied said they'd take them. Then they went bankrupt. Then that bankrupt publisher got bought by a bigger firm. Story: in the end is the beginning, and in the beginning is the end.
Ali SmithWe'd never expect to understand a piece of music on one listen, but we tend to believe we've read a book after reading it just once.
Ali Smith