I'm very interested in tea. I wouldn't mind being involved in some aspect of the tea industry.

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• Alexander McCall Smith:

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

• Alexander McCall Smith:

  Serial novels have an unexpected effect; they hook the writer as well as the reader.

• Alexander McCall Smith:

  You do not have to ladle on the impasto to make a point about human frailty or ambitions.

• Alexander McCall Smith:

  But you cannot expect every writer to dwell on human suffering. I think my books do deal with grave

• Alexander McCall Smith:

  Every novel presents a slice of life. A noir policier for example presents one slice, one that perh

• Alexander McCall Smith:

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

• Alexander McCall Smith:

  I think people in Botswana are pleased that my books paint a positive picture of their lives and po

• Alexander McCall Smith:

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

• Alexander McCall Smith:

  Wherever I go in the world, people all know about Scotland Street and are always asking me about wh

• Alexander McCall Smith:

  I would never inflict my bassoon on anybody really other than the long suffering audiences that com