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Zadie Smith has 191 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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It was in the air, or so it seemed to Kiki, this hatred of women and their bodies- it seeped in with…
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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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Protect the time and space in which you write. Keep everybody away from it, even the people who are most important to…
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Our children will be born of our actions. Our accidents will become their destinies. Oh, the actions will remain. It is a…
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But it makes an immigrant laugh to hear the fears of the nationalist, scared of infection, penetration, miscegenation, when this is small…
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Most of the cruelty in the world is just misplaced energy.
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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…
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Sometimes I think my whole professional life has been based on this hunch I had, early on, that many people feel just…
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I remember so clearly, in the early days, if I had to do a piece of press, they'd phone for me and…
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It's gotten to a point where everybody is concerned about their rights and nobody is concerned about their duties.
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Work on a computer that is disconnected from the internet.
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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…
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Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried, or childless men.
— Francis Bacon
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U2's best work has always been when we didn't know what we're doing.
— Bono
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To not be modest about it, you'll find that with only a couple of exceptions, most of the musicians that I've worked…
— David Bowie
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If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work. Much of the best work…
— Dale Carnegie
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My best work is often almost unconscious and occurs ahead of my ability to understand it.
— Sam Abell
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It is always the case with the best work, that it is misrepresented, and disparaged at first, for it takes a curiously…
— Francis Galton
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Everyone works hard when they want to, when they get quick results, when it's convenient to put forth effort. The best work…
— Peter Vidmar
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The writer must be in it; he can't be to one side of it, ever. He has to be endangered by it.…
— Arthur Miller
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Whenever I'm asked to identify my best work, or my favorite, my answer has always been the same - 'My next one!'
— Ken Danby
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Much of the best work of the world has been done against seeming impossibilities.
— Dale Carnegie
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You do your best work if you do a job that makes you happy.
— Bob Ross
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Fear does its best work in isolation. Courage wears the face of your ability to love and be loved. Breakthrough happens when…
— Lynn Jones
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