Author: Ali Smith

Cites

• John Berger (1)
  • IN: the accidental (2005) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Between the experience of living a normal life at this moment on the planet and the public narratives being offered to give a sense to that life, the empty space, the gap, is enormous.
    FROM: A Man With Tousled Hair, (2001), Essay, UK
• Nick Cohen (1)
  • IN: the accidental (2005) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Shallow uniformity is not an accident but a consequence of what Marxists optimistically call late capitalism.
    FROM: Cruel Britannia: Reports on the Sinister and the Preposterous, (1999), Book, UK
• Jane Austen (1)
  • IN: the accidental (2005) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: The whole industry dwindled soon into a matter of little importance but to Emma and her nephews: - in her imagination it maintained its ground, and Henry and John were still asking every day for the story of Harriet and the gipsies, and still tenaciously setting her right if she varied in the slightest particular from the original recital.
    FROM: Emma, (1815), Novel, UK
• Sophocles (1)
  • IN: the accidental (2005) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Many are the things that man / Seeing must undertand. / Not seeing, how shall he know / What lies in the hand / Of time to come?
    FROM: Ajax, (-442), Play, Greece
• Charlie Chaplin (1)
  • IN: the accidental (2005) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: My artistry is a bit austere
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, UK
• William Shakespeare (2)
  • IN: Autumn (2016) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Spring come to you at the farthest, In the very end of harvest
    FROM: The Tempest, (1623), Play, UK
  • IN: There But For The (2011) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Every wink of an eye some new grace will be born.
    FROM: The Winter's Tale, (1623), Play, UK
• George Monbiot (1)
  • IN: Autumn (2016) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: At current rates of soil erosion, Britain has just 100 harvests left
    FROM: These Brexiters will grind our environment into the dust, (2016), Article, UK
• Ossie Clark (1)
  • IN: Autumn (2016) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Green as the grass we lay in corn, in sunlight
    FROM: Clark's Diary, (1998), Diary, UK
• John Keats (1)
  • IN: Autumn (2016) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: If I am destinied to be happy with you here -- How short is the longest life
    FROM: To Fanny Brawne, (1819), Letter, UK
• W S Graham (1)
  • IN: Autumn (2016) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Gently disintegrate me
    FROM: Enter a Cloud, (1979), Poem, UK
• Francesco del Cossa (1)
  • IN: How to be Both (2014) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Et ricordare suplicando a quella che io sonto francescho del cossa il quale a sollo fatto quili tri canpi verso lanticamara
    FROM: NULL, (1470), [NA], France
• Eugenio / Galassi, Jonathan Montale (1)
  • IN: How to be Both (2014) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: green spirit seekng life where only drought and desolation sting; spark that says that everything begins when everything seems charcoal
    FROM: The Eel, (1998), Poem, France
• Sylvie Vartan (1)
  • IN: How to be Both (2014) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: J'ai reve ue sur un grand mur blanc je lisais mon testament
    FROM: Le Testament, (1967), Song, France
• Hannah Arendt (1)
  • IN: How to be Both (2014) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Although the living is subject to the ruin of the tme, the process of decay is at the same time a process of crystallization, that in the depth of the sea, into which sinks and is dissolved what was once alive, some things 'suffer a sea-change' and survive in new crystallized forms and shapes that remain immune to the elements, as though they waited only for the pearl diver who one day will come down to them and bring them up into the world of the living.
    FROM: Introduction to Illuminations: Essays and Reflections, (1968), Essay, Germany/ US
• Giorgio / McKendrick, Jamie Bassani (1)
  • IN: How to be Both (2014) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Just like a character in a novel, he disappeared suddenly, without leaving the slightest trace behind.
    FROM: NULL, (None), [NA], Italy
• Jackie Kay (1)
  • IN: Public Library (2015) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: This same book in a stranger's hands, half-known. Those readers, kindred spirits, almost friends. You are in transition; you are on the threshold. The library is the place that gets you. Pure gold.
    FROM: Dear Library, (2014), Poem, UK
• Alexandra Harris (1)
  • IN: Public Library (2015) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: O magic place it was -- still open thank God.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
• George Orwell (1)
  • IN: There But For The (2011) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection, that one is sometimes willing to commit sins for the sake of loyalty, that one does not push asceticism to the point where it makes friendly intercourse impossible, and that one is prepared in the end to be defeated and broken up by life, which is the inevitable price of fastening one's love upon other human individuals.
    FROM: In Front of Your Nose: 1945-1950, (1968), Book, UK
• Stefan Zweig (1)
  • IN: There But For The (2011) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: For only he who lives his life as a mystery is truly alive.
    FROM: Fantastic Night, (1922), Book, Austria
• Katherine Mansfield (2)
  • IN: There But For The (2011) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: I hate mystery.
    FROM: NULL, (1922), [NA], New Zealand
  • IN: The First Person (2008) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: True to oneself! Which self?
    FROM: Journal of Katherine Mansfield, (1927), Book, New Zealand
• John Donne (1)
  • IN: There But For The (2011) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Of longitudes, what other way have we, But to mark when and where the dark eclipses be?
    FROM: Valediction: Of the Book, (1633), Poem, UK
• Grace Paley (1)
  • IN: The First Person (2008) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: The first person is often the lover who says I never knew anyone like you The listener is the beloved She whispers Who? Me?
    FROM: "A Poem About Storytelling", (2000), Poem, US
• Edwin Morgan (1)
  • IN: The First Person (2008) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: So many pieces of me! I must hold tight.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, UK
• Haruki Murakami (1)
  • IN: The First Person (2008) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Our responsibility begins with the power to imagine.
    FROM: Kafka on the Shore, (2002), Novel, Japan

Cited by

• Jackie Kay (1)
  • IN: Reality, Reality (2012) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: It really happened in really real life.
    FROM: There but for the, (2011), Novel, UK
• Jeanette Winterson (1)
  • IN: Lighthousekeeping (2004) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Remember you must live.
    FROM: Hotel World, (2001), Novel, UK
• Ellen Wiles (1)
  • IN: The Invisible Crowd (2017) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: All across the country, people said that it wasn't that they didn't like immigrants.
    FROM: Autumn, (2016), Novel, UK