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Zadie Smith
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: October 27
Essayist
Novelist
Writer
London
England
Zadie Adeline Smith
Vaudeville
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A writer's duty is to register what it is like for him or her to be in the world.
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Any woman who counts on her face is a fool.
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Writing is my way of expressing - and thereby eliminating - all the various ways we can be wrong-headed.
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I find it impossible to experience either pride or shame over accidents of genetics in which I had no active part. I'm not necessarily proud to be female. I am not even proud to be human — I only love to be so.
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I'm always interested in the way people speak and move in their environment, in a very particular environment. I'm never interested in writing a kind of neutral, universal novel that could be set anywhere. To me, the any novel is a local thing always.
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I lost many literary battles the day I read 'Their Eyes Were Watching God.' I had to concede that occasionally aphorisms have their power. I had to give up the idea that Keats had a monopoly on the lyrical.
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The world is now multicultural the same way the world is round. It's not a selling point, it's not a 'quirky' feature, it's not a cynical marketing ploy, it's not an artistic statement, it's not even a plot device. It's a fact, like seedless grapes.
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When the male organ of a man stands erect, two thirds of his intelect go away. And one third of his religion.
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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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Surely there is something to be said for drawing a circle around our attention and remaining within that circle. But how large should this circle be?
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Something in me was changed by Lincoln in the Bardo, and the great sublime/grotesque risk of [George Saunders'] ghosts was a part of it.
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It's a feeling of happiness that knocks me clean out of adjectives. I think sometimes that the best reason for writing novels is to experience those four and a half hours after you write the final word.
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Don't confuse honours with achievement.
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Art is the Western myth, with which we both console ourselves and make ourselves.
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The novel leads you places that you never could have gotten to otherwise.
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Learning how to be a good reader is what makes you a writer.
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When I was young, I was very technical about these things. I didn't like to admit to any intimate relation with what I was writing.
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One thing you learn about the novel as a form is that it's always smarter than you are.
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Generally, women can't do this, but men retain the ancient ability to leave a family and a past. They just unhook themselves, like removing a fake beard, and skulk discreetly back into society, changed men. Unrecognizable.
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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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