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Good Quotes by Zadie Smith
- 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…
- Learning how to be a good reader is what makes you a writer.
- 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…
- 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.
- Your mid-thirties is a good time because you know a fair amount, you have some self-control.
- She hopes for nothing except fine weather and a resolution. She wants to end properly, like a good sentence.
- Where I come from," said Archie, "a bloke likes to get to know a girl before he marries her." "Where you come from it is…
- ... don't ever underestimate people, don't ever underestimate the pleasure they receive from viewing pain that is not their own... Pain by itself is just…
- (Feedback) People become addicted to it. That’s why journalism is so popular, because you want to hear, every day, what people think of what you…
- Oh yes, my generation liked to be in some pain when they read. The harder it was, the more good we believed it was doing…
- Well-run libraries are filled with people because what a good library offers cannot be easily found elsewhere: an indoor public space in which you do…
- Working with great writers can be humbling and frightening, but it can also change you for good, forever.
More Good Quotes
- Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You… — Hannah Arendt
- The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil. — Hannah Arendt
- Few girls are as well shaped as a good horse. — Hannah Arendt
- Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either… — Hannah Arendt
- Having been a child actor, I remember how directors would trick me to get good performances out of me. I don't think… — Asia Argento
- I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can give you… — Alexis Arguello
- Aside from a handful of guys boxing is missing the good trainers, that's why our sport is so in the air now… — Alexis Arguello
- I work with really hard-working people who are really good at what they do. — J. J. Abrams
- From heresy, frenzy and jealousy, good Lord deliver me. — Ludovico Ariosto
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle
- Good habits formed at youth make all the difference. — Aristotle
- Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics. — Aristotle