Alexander McCall Smith Giving Quotations

I've also long since realized that the way to really engage children is to give out prizes; it's amazing how it concentrates their minds.

My wife Elizabeth and I started The Really Terrible Orchestra for people like us who are pretty hopeless musicians who would like to play in an orchestra. It has been a great success. We give performances; weve become the most famous bad orchestra in the world.

I am often thanked by people for inventing the term traditionally built. The people who give me thanks for this are often traditionally built themselves.