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You are never stronger...than when you land on the other side of despair.
Zadie Smith
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Zadie Smith
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: October 27
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London
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Zadie Adeline Smith
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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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A trauma is something one repeats and repeats, after all, and this is the tragedy of the Iqbals--that they can't help but reenact the dash they once made from one land to another, from one faith to another, from one brown mother country into the pale, freckled arms of an imperial sovereign.
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Work on a computer that is disconnected from the internet.
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Don’t romanticise your ‘vocation’. You can either write good sentences or you can’t. There is no ‘writer’s lifestyle’. All that matters is what you leave on the page.
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(Feedback) People become addicted to it. That’s why journalism is so popular, because you want to hear, every day, what people think of what you just wrote. I think a little patience on that front can be good, too.
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To me, these kind of everyday miseries act as a fatal disqualifier. My sunniest beliefs are basically contingent on the fact that my child is not dying of cancer right now.
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It's not in good taste to have talking ghosts in a grown-up novel.
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The belief that consciousness extends beyond death is surely to put more belief in the permanence of self, not less. That seems to me a comfort that you're allowing yourself.
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Don't live in a way that makes you feel dead.
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In the end, your past is not my past and your truth is not my truth and your solution - is not my solution.
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Time is how you spend your love.
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[George Saunders] is very precise about what he is doing. There isn't a thing left to chance.
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