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Zadie Smith
Age: 48
Born: 1975
Born: October 27
Essayist
Novelist
Writer
London
England
Zadie Adeline Smith
Feelings
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Feeling

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I have an ambition to write a great book, but that's really a competition with myself. I've noticed that a lot of young writers, people in all media, want to be famous but they don't really want to do anything. I can't think of anything less worth striving for than fame.
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I wouldn't write about people who are living and who are close to me, because I think it's a very violent thing to do to another person. And anytime I have done it, even in the disguise of fiction, the results have been horrific.
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The future's another country, man... And I still ain't got a passport.
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It's got two aspects. The bit that involves the public life I could not really tolerate and cannot really tolerate. I just can't get used to the idea of being somebody unreal in people's minds. I can't live my life like that.
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You are never stronger...than when you land on the other side of despair.
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People don't settle for people. They resolve to be with them. It takes faith. You draw a circle in the sand and agree to stand in it and believe in it.
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(and Catholics give out forgiveness at about the same rate as politicians give out promises and whores give out)
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I wrote 'White Teeth' in the late nineties. I didn't really feel trepidatious about it. It was a different time.
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You don't have favourites among your children, but you do have allies.
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And so it happened again, the daily miracle whereby interiority opens out and brings to bloom the million-petalled flower of being here, in the world, with other people. Neither as hard as she had thought it might be nor as easy as it appeared.
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I never bought the idea of individual genius from which the novel spews forth. It's always an act of curation.
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And now the moment. Such a moment has a peculiar character. It is brief and temporal indeed, like every moment it is transient as all moments are it is past, like every moment in the next moment. And yet it is decisive, and filled with the eternal. Such a moment ought to have a distinctive name let us call it the Fullness of Time.
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And it's just anathema to being a writer. It's not healthy. But in another way, when I'm writing, what it's about for me is being good on the page. None of that noise could change the way I feel about my writing. Which is not always particularly positive.
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I don't ask myself what did I live for, said Carlene strongly. That is a man's question. I ask whom did I live for.
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Desire is never final, desire is imprecise and impractical [...]
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It's a funny thing about rap, that when you say 'I' into the microphone, it's like a public confession. It's very strange.
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Work on a computer that is disconnected from the ­internet.
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Your mid-thirties is a good time because you know a fair amount, you have some self-control.
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Most of the cruelty in the world is just misplaced energy.
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First rule of writing: When still a child, make sure you read a lot of books. Spend more time doing this than anything else.
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