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You're a library of me.

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Zadie Smith
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: October 27
Essayist
Novelist
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London
England
Zadie Adeline Smith
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Work on a computer that is disconnected from the ­internet.
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I used to take that God's-eye view as a comfort when I was a child. I'd think, Well, we couldn't find the world meaningful at all if it weren't for death. Of course, that is the smuggest and most intolerable of all perspectives because I'm not suffering from the death or the pain.
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My short stories have always pushed twenty pages. That's no length for a short story to be. You either do them short like Carver or you stop trying.
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Tell the truth through whichever veil comes to hand - but tell it. Resign yourself to the lifelong sadness that comes from never ­being satisfied.
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The lack of alternatives to an illegal action does not legitimise that action.
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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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[George Saunders] is very precise about what he is doing. There isn't a thing left to chance.
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I like books that don't give you an easy ride. I like the feeling of discomfort. The sense of being implicated.
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The roots of rap are originally ghetto-ised or extremely working class. So when you're an artist who's making something which isn't how its mainstream appearance should be, there's always these strange questions of authenticity and what you have to do to be 'real' as a rapper.
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An essential part of power is the freedom not to think too deeply
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Under every friendship there is a difficult sentence that must be said, in order that the friendship can be survived.
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World makers, social network makers, ask one question first: 'How can I do it?'
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A lot of [George Saunders] early stories now feel prophetic. Take the recent election [of Donald Trump]. Historians in 100 years might write about it as being the first internet election, in which what happened was actually an expression in the real world of a virtual reality. And you've been writing about that subject for a while.
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To a novelist, fluidity is the ultimate good omen suddenly difficult problems are simply solved, intractable structural knots loosen themselves, and you come upon the key without even recognizing that this is what you hold.
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All tastes are expressions of belief.
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All my books are made up of other books. They're all deeply structured on other fiction, because I was a student in fiction and I didn't have much actual living to draw on. I suspect a lot of other people's novels are like that, too, though they might be slower to talk about it.
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