Alexander Mccall Smith Quotes

I'm very interested in tea. I wouldn't mind being involved in some aspect of the tea industry.
I've also long since realized that the way to really engage children is to give out prizes; it's amazing how it concentrates their minds.
I've always had a creative urge and I get immense satisfaction from creating something because it feels like I'm making sense of the world and imposing order on it.
I've certainly always had a very high regard for Botswana and so I paint a very good picture of the country and I've never pretended to be painting an entirely realistic picture.
If you lose sight of the smaller accomplishments, you end up with an imbalance in your life.
It seems to me that we're in danger of losing sight of certain basic civic values in society by allowing the growth of a whole generation of people who really have no sense of attachment to society.
It's through the small things that we develop our moral imagination, so that we can understand the sufferings of others.
Manners are the basic building blocks of civil society.
Many of my books are written from a female perspective. I rather enjoy the take that women have on the world, and certainly I enjoy the conversations that women have.
My Botswana books are positive, and I've never really sought to deny that. They are positive. They present a very positive picture of the country. And I think that that is perfectly defensible given that there is so much written about Africa which is entirely negative.
My parents were very supportive and always encouraged us. My father was a gentle, nice man. My mother was quite a colorful character and a keen reader who encouraged me to write.
My wife Elizabeth and I started The Really Terrible Orchestra for people like us who are pretty hopeless musicians who would like to play in an orchestra. It has been a great success. We give performances; we've become the most famous bad orchestra in the world.
New York is a wonderful place to be up, an awful place to be down.
Oh I love gadgets and I pride myself on keeping at the cutting edge of technology.
One of the most destructive things that's happening in modern society is that we are losing our sense of the bonds that bind people together - which can lead to nightmares of social collapse.
Painters aren't expected to paint bleak pictures, are they?
Serial novels have an unexpected effect; they hook the writer as well as the reader.
That my philosophy of life is, as far as possible, one of enjoyment. I'm not nihilistic.
The local community is very important in one's life; the feelings of identification with a place and people.
The Okavango Delta is an astonishing sight: the great Okavango River, rather than flow towards the sea, flows inland, into the sands of the Kalahari.
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