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Zadie Smith
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: October 27
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Zadie Adeline Smith
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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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It wasn't like the spare rooms of immigrants - packed to the rafters with all that they have ever possessed, no matter how defective or damaged, mountains of odds and ends - the stand testament to the fact that they have things now, where before they had nothing.
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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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There's a perception that novels can't usually allow for your kind of absolute attention to detail.
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I am very selfish, really. I lived for love.
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…maybe the whole Internet will simply become like Facebook: falsely jolly, fake-friendly, self-promoting, slickly disingenuous….” - Zadie Smith
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It's difficult to tell the truth about how a book begins. The truth, as far as it can be presented to other people, is either wholly banal or too intimate.
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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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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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I'm a writer who never writes about sex. It's so far from my own fictional world.
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Jerome said, It's like, a family doesn't work anymore when everyone in it is more miserable than they would be if they were alone, You know?
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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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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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I know a lot of people who read and think: George [Saunders] is so much fun. There's no denying you're fun to read, but as a writer I think of [George Saunders] as, in fact, not a fun and freewheeling type but really an obsessive control artist.
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You become a different writer when you approach a short story. When things are not always having to represent other things, you find real human beings begin to cautiously appear on your pages.
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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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It was a kiss from the past.
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Novels and stories are sometimes very complex staging grounds to say, in fact, very simple things. Things impossible to say otherwise because they are repeated in so many exploitative contexts - adverts and TV shows and political speeches.
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She loved you in the morning because the day was new.
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