“If you can read the world as a construct, you can ask questions of the...” — Ali Smith Quote

If you can read the world as a construct, you can ask questions of the construct, and you can suggest ways to change the construct.

But everything written has style. The list of ingredients on the side of a cornflakes box has style. And everything literary has literary style. And style is integral to a work. How something is told correlates with - more - makes what's being told. A story is its style.

I see the difficulty of kids in going to university, the difficulty of kids in schools getting arts education, so that the arts and drama and the creative arts are extracurricular. They aren't: they are at the centre, and they are the equipment we so desperately need in the world.

The things in life which try to pin us down are the things we have to try to work against.

I recognise that Socialism has ended its purely theoretical course, and that the hour to construct has come.

I do think I have an ability to record sensual and emotional facts and factoids, to construct a convincing surface of what life feels like, both physical life and emotional life.

When you construct a mix tape, the first song you come out with has to be a barnburner.

It's time for us to work together to construct a Haiti that will make our forefathers proud.

People spend their entire lives trying to construct something to grab onto: a family, a home, a business. Rarely does anyone seem to manage to get much ground under their feet.