“Canadian writers don't live in gated mansions; you can just talk to th...” — Russell Smith Quote

“Canadian writers don't live in gated mansions; you can just talk to them when you see them lining up at the Second Cup.”

“I'm in favour of hipster androgyny: Any trend that permits men to rebel against strict gender rules of appearance is going to make the world a more expressive and sensitive place for all of us.”

“The only thing that makes a book YA is that it is about teenagers, and it is written in a very conventional, non-artsy, non-pretentious way. YA is not the place for the oblique or the cryptic. If it is in any way experimental in form, it is not YA.”

“My family was a good family, I had a great Canadian education and I came up in a great, little town like Ottawa.”

“I was on a founding members of the Canadian theatre movement in the late 60's till the mid 70's and performed theatre from Halifax to Vancouver and all places in between.”

“A Canadian comedian once told me that when you first go out there to imagine that you're actually just going back out for the encore, that all the clapping is because they've already seen you do your thing and they want to see more. You can train your mind to do anything.”