Ali Smith Quotes

I was a book lover from the beginning. I loved, love, words and images and ideas, the ways a book can make you feel things deeply or help you understand something you never even knew there were words for.

Writing is something that I've always loved. That stems from my love of being a reader.

One of the most important elements of my identity is my identity as a reader. I love to read - really, if I'm honest with myself, it's practically the only activity that I truly love to do.

Reading has always been the great love of my life.

I've loved reading all my life.

I always loved reading. Growing up, my favorite book was 'A Child's Garden of Verses,' by Robert Louis Stevenson.

I love character and voice, and my favourite books have been the ones in which I've become completely absorbed.

When you read a short story, you come out a little more aware and a little more in love with the world around you. What I want is to have the reader come out just 6 percent more awake to the world.

I absolutely love reading; it is a fantastic way of unwinding.

I love the way you can fall in love with a piece of literature; how words alone can get your heart doing that.

I love my books.

Books, I found, had the power to make time stand still, retreat or fly into the future.

I always individuate myself from other writers who say they would die if they couldn't write. For me, I'd die if I couldn't read.

There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book.

I want my readers to feel, to think, sometimes to laugh. But most of all I want them to enjoy a good read.

Storytelling is my passion, and it rises from a love of reading.

When I think of the books I love, there's always a little laughter in the dark.

I am happy to keep working on books because I'm always reading, and I'm always trying to fall in love.

Reading is something I've really missed, not being able to enter people's worlds.

Books were a huge part of my childhood growing up. We would go on vacation, and my mom was always carting manuscripts around.

What I like best is a book that's at least funny once in a while. What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though.

I have always, always loved words.

So he lent her books. After all, one of life's best pleasures is reading a book of perfect beauty; more pleasurable still is rereading that book; most pleasurable of all is lending it to the person one loves: Now she is reading or has just read the scene with the mirrors; she who is so lovely is drinking in that loveliness I've drunk.

If you make something with love and, you know, passion and you tell a real story, I think it will always find an audience somehow, you know.

I have a lot of respect and love for children's books.