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Russell Smith
Profession : Novelist
Birth : August 2, 1963
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No matter how fine your suit and your shoes, you will remind everyone that you are not yet a grownup man by wearing them with your old college knapsack, in its nasty, nylon glory.
Russell Smith
I dislike turtlenecks at the best of times, as they are always unflattering to the imperfect male physique, but when worn in combination with a v-neck sweater, they say 'Grandpa' louder than any other item of clothing.
Russell Smith
Ah, the intractable Canadian problem: Winter and finery are basically incompatible.
Russell Smith
The only pleasurable part of taking the subway, as everyone will agree, is concocting elaborate fantasies about what it would be like to be married to the most interesting strangers you see there.
Russell Smith
If people didn't read books on the subway, underground journeys would be dreary.
Russell Smith
All coffee shops now have WiFi. Why bring a book when you could be wittily attacking some idiot columnist on Twitter, or responding to your date requests, or posting a picture of your foot? All of that is more gripping and immediate and social than books.
Russell Smith
Verisimilitude is something I am constantly seeking in fiction. I am looking for surface detail that makes something seem real.
Russell Smith
Guys think that the military associations of camo are going to make them look tough, as if they might just break out a shotgun and take down a passing duck at any given moment. I'm not so sure.
Russell Smith
Canadian writers don't live in gated mansions; you can just talk to them when you see them lining up at the Second Cup.
Russell Smith
Frosh-week songs are meant to be offensive because offensive is rebellious.
Russell Smith
Conformism is essential to the group coherence and 'spirit.' The whole impetus behind tribalism of this kind is conservative: Belonging to the tribe is defined by opposition to other tribes. Our tribe, and its traditional ways, is superior to other tribes because it is ours.
Russell Smith
Universities can teach maturity. They can teach teenagers how to be adults, and that means to function outside a clique or a tribe.
Russell Smith
The locale does not determine the dress code; the host does.
Russell Smith
There is actually no such thing as an Artist type. 'Artist' is just an economic designation, a box you tick on a form. We are all people, and we are all creative.
Russell Smith
Even in early adulthood, men can't be told what to wear; they can only be subtly moved by example, encouragement, and a generally sophisticated atmosphere.
Russell Smith
Men over 60 often think that if they wear athletic shoes - soft-soled referee shoes or hiking shoes or actual running shoes - then they will look more youthful. The contrary is true.
Russell Smith
I have never, ever, not once, met a writer who said he or she would never read a mystery or a story set in some imagined future.
Russell Smith
Anyone who has set out to invent a purely imaginary story knows that the whole thing is fantasy, from beginning to end; there must be a sense of magic created about the most restrained of naturalism.
Russell Smith
Have you noticed the people most likely to be up in arms about governments apparently spying on us tend to be the most non-private people you know? The people launching petitions and wailing about Big Brother and data collection are most likely to be the most constant self-presenters.
Russell Smith
What I would love to see is art that explicitly addresses not personal intimacies but anonymous intimacies: the vast collections of facts about you and me that now exist in giant server banks.
Russell Smith
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