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I would never inflict my bassoon on anybody really other than the long suffering audiences that come to the concerts of The Really Terrible Orchestra; which actually is really terrible.

With '44 Scotland Street' I found myself having to work out how a daily novel works, and it is completely different to a conventional novel.

Alexander McCall Smith

The point of opera is that people are moved by the emotions and music.

Alexander McCall Smith

I would never inflict my bassoon on anybody really other than the long suffering audiences that come to the concerts of The Really Terrible Orchestra; which actually is really terrible.

Alexander McCall Smith

I have three older sisters, so we were a reasonably large family and, in general, a happy one.

Alexander McCall Smith

I'm interested in character and dialogue and exchange of ideas.

Alexander McCall Smith

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.

Alexander McCall Smith

Every novel presents a slice of life. A noir policier for example presents one slice, one that perhaps addresses social dysfunction or some sort of pathology, while mine present a slice that is more upbeat and affirmative.

Alexander McCall Smith

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.

Alexander McCall Smith

New York is a wonderful place to be up, an awful place to be down.

Alexander McCall Smith

Manners are the basic building blocks of civil society.

Alexander McCall Smith

Edinburgh used to be a haughty city.

Alexander McCall Smith

The local community is very important in one's life; the feelings of identification with a place and people.

Alexander McCall Smith

It's through the small things that we develop our moral imagination, so that we can understand the sufferings of others.

Alexander McCall Smith

Oh I love gadgets and I pride myself on keeping at the cutting edge of technology.

Alexander McCall Smith

The wider your readership, the greater the chances of offending your readers.

Alexander McCall Smith

Painters aren't expected to paint bleak pictures, are they?

Alexander McCall Smith

That my philosophy of life is, as far as possible, one of enjoyment. I'm not nihilistic.

Alexander McCall Smith

Fiction is able to encompass books that are bleak and which dwell on the manifold and terrible problems of our times. But I don't think that all books need to have that particular focus.

Alexander McCall Smith

Any author of fiction will tell you that characters don't need to be told what to do.

Alexander McCall Smith