Alexander McCall Smith
Related There are too many books I haven't read, too many places I haven't seen, too many memories I... IRWIN SHAW FRANK DEFORD JOHN IRVING I haven't read the 'Twilight' books. But it's everywhere so I feel like I know it. E... MAX IRONS NICK HORNBY PAULO COELHO PATRICIA BRIGGS ROY BENNETT RUSSELL PETERS ALEXANDER MCCALL SMITH Electronic books are ideal for people who value the information contained in them, or who have visio... JOE QUEENAN There are books on our shelves we haven't read and doubtless never will, that each of us has pro... UMBERTO ECO ROY T. BENNETT SONYA HARTNETT There aren't too many people out there who can start one of my books and not finish it. I don... JOY FIELDING People lose it when I say this, but I'm a novelist who doesn't read novels. There are lots o... KAREN TRAVISS BEN HOPKINS People think children's books are about teddy bears and little flowers. I realize people sometim... PETER SIS MARIA BARTIROMO GARY SHTEYNGART To say that I'm going to veto something that I haven't read is just - or sign something that... DOUG DUCEY ALEXANDER MCCALL SMITH ALEXANDER MCCALL SMITH IRVINE WELSH Every generation likes to think that children don't read as much as they used to when they were ... DARREN SHAN We have over an hour of footage with Ken Marino. Same with Kevin Smith. Because you never know, when... LAUREN MILLER ISABEL ALLENDE KARIN SLAUGHTER JOHN LEGEND And I haven't met too many actors along the way that haven't told me how much the show has m... DAVID SELBY I haven't always felt it was okay to read romance novels. When I was younger, it embarrassed me ... KAREN ROBARDS ELISABETH KUBLER-ROSS DANIEL RADCLIFFE There are many reluctant young readers who haven't yet found books that make them laugh. BARBARA PARK I don't really like to talk about other people. I think people who have things going on in their... ABIGAIL BRESLIN I haven't changed a bit. I go out with my mates, but I probably have to watch what I do a little... TRAVIS FIMMEL SIRI HUSTVEDT PETER SHAFFER JACKIE COLLINS MIKE DITKA ALICE COOPER JUDITH VIORST ALEXANDER MCCALL SMITH No person is perfect. I haven't, thank God, had any infidelity issues. But you can't say wha... TASHA SMITH We don't expect every operator to be Christian, but we tell them we do expect them to operate on... S. TRUETT CATHY BEN CARSON I don't try to sugarcoat things, but I also think my books make positive statements about the pe... TAWNI O'DELL MARK HADDON There are the people who read my horror novels - the first two of them - and they found them scary o... DAVID WONG I think a lot of parents who are smart, well-read - they're the ones who are choosing not to vac... SEAN DUFFY I'm probably wouldn't do anything differently if I had to do it again. Every little thing th... DAVID FOSTER My business issues are just that - business - and I deal with them like they are business. FAITH EVANS HELENA BONHAM CARTER KIM YOUNG-HA DIANE KEATON I know deaf people. I have discussed the issues with them I've also thought about them a lot so ... RICHARD MASUR SOPHIE HANNAH CAITLYN JENNER DAVID CAMERON STEPHEN HARPER TONY DUNGY If you haven't read 'In The Morning I'll Be Gone', I reckon it's a pretty good p... ADRIAN MCKINTY MICHAEL BLOOMBERG WALTER DEAN MYERS I haven't done years of diversity training, so sometimes I say things which are probably tactles... DAVID DAVIS ITALO CALVINO CARLOS FUENTES GEORGE CARLIN JOEL OSTEEN Our weights fluctuate: Some people gain or lose, even friends who are average size. If I would say &... CHRISSY METZ GAIL COLLINS ALEXANDER MCCALL SMITH ALEXANDER MCCALL SMITH VLADIMIR PUTIN ALEXANDER MCCALL SMITH VERNE TROYER I always send new writers to 'Writer's Digest Books' line-up of how-to books. I read the... GAIL Z. MARTIN I don't like my parents; I never will. I didn't cry at either of their funerals. I haven'... DAVID SMALL Certainly, I know what it's like to be obsessed. I haven't always been there for my children... HENNING MANKELL IRIS APFEL CYNTHIA OZICK I think to try to understand human behavior and why people do what they do, and what in their lives ... HALEY BENNETT CHAD KROEGER I would love to be in 'The Hunger Games.' I'm one of the few people who haven't read... CASSI THOMSON I am fortunate in having this bone structure because I have a tremendously prominent temple. I like ... KATE O'MARA EVAN OSNOS GARY OLDMAN PAUL WALKER I think a lot of people who say they are bisexual aren't. MARK GATISS I'm not an autobiographical writer, but I am a writer who deals with human emotion on all levels... P. J. HARVEY ANN LANDERS JOHN SUNUNU If you don't want to deal with them, fine. But don't hamper other people from dealing with t... DAN FARMER I think people who don't work don't really have interesting and meaningful lives. More than ... JAMIE JOHNSON JANET FITCH ROGER AILES I'm constantly snatching my books out of the hands of precocious ten-year-olds who are simply to... MEG ROSOFF GEORGE CLOONEY TOM STOPPARD The early readers are in-between books for the kids who aren't ready for novels yet but are done... GRACE LIN
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I am not a self-help writer. I am a self-problem writer. When people read my books, I provoke some t... 
Read good books. Read bad books - and figure out why you don't like them. Then don't do it w... 
Associate yourself with people who think positively. You cannot surround yourself with negative peop... 
On my best day, I cannot do Scottish people. I don't even believe that's a real accent, to b... 
…people decided what they thought and would not be moved, not even by the most patient, the most r... 
Associate Yourself with People Who Think Positively: 
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I'm a writer. In Latin America, they say I'm a Latin-American writer because I also write in... 
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As a politician, you have to deal with someone wanting you to fail every day. I think I prefer being... 
I say to people who care for people who are dying, if you really love that person and want to help t... 
I haven't always been thrilled with my work. But the fear of not proving the people wrong who th... 
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I think plays, like books, are endemic. They grow out of the soil of the writer and the place he'... 
The biggest critics of my books are people who never read them. 
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People that haven't seen us yet are shocked because they think that Alice Cooper must be a femal... 
Kids are always writing me: 'I had a bad day too.' 'I got gum in my hair.' And the k... 
If you go and talk to most people, they mean well but they don't have much of a breadth on educa... 
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I was weird right from the start. It's just that you can't ever expect people to get you. An... 
Of John Le Carre's books, I've only read 'The Spy Who Came In From The Cold,' and I ... 
My thinking about plastic surgery is this. I haven't had it, but never say never. Because when y... 
There are very few well-adjusted people in my books. But I do think that's normal. Because every... 
So many people go through life, and they never deal with their own issues, no matter what the issues... 
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I don't read books by people who have betrayed the Motherland. 
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No one can teach writing, but classes may stimulate the urge to write. If you are born a writer, you... 
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I didn't expect to find much visible trace of the American war in Vietnam. The Vietnamese are to... 
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A man doesn't plant a tree for himself. He plants it for posterity. 
I'm a great admirer of cartoons, because I can't do cartoons.