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Going Quotes by Zadie Smith
- I remember so clearly, in the early days, if I had to do a piece of press, they'd phone for me and say, 'Oh, we're…
- If you're going to write a good book, you have to make mistakes and you have to not be so cautious all the time.
- I just realized quite early on that I'm not going to be the type who can write a novel every two years. I think you…
- Because immigrants have always been particularly prone to repetition - it's something to do with that experience of moving from West to East or East…
- Other people’s words are so important. And then without warning they stop being important, along with all those words of yours that their words prompted…
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