Andrew Smith > Quotes

“When I think about my life, I'm always thinking, 'I hope I live long enough to do all the stories I know.' And I know I'm not gonna, 'cos I got a list over there and it keeps getting a little bit longer.”
― Andrew Smith, Moondust

“of the way all that is best in humanity appears to have been driven by everything that is worst.”
― Andrew Smith, Moondust: In Search of the Men Who Fell to Earth

“Social scientists call it the ‘narrative turn’. An identifiable lurch towards describing our world explicitly in terms of story: to situating ourselves within revolving webs of narrative, on which our sensess of place and identity and connection to others can rest. Most date the birth of this ‘new narrative age’ to the mid-90s. One, the French theorist Christian Salmon, ventures a specific year. 1995. The year of Netscape, Pseudo, the ubiquity of the web.”
― Andrew Smith, Totally Wired: The Wild Rise and Crazy Fall of the First Dotcom Dream

“It’s irritating, because, for him, the landing was the poetry and taking off again his next major work.”
― Andrew Smith, Moondust: In Search of the Men Who Fell to Earth