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Out Quotes by Zadie Smith
- It's a feeling of happiness that knocks me clean out of adjectives. I think sometimes that the best reason for writing novels is to experience…
- I do my best work under pressure, so I’ll nick an artery, and my husband isn’t allowed to stanch the bleeding till I’ve banged out…
- As far as I'm concerned, if you want to find out about the last day of WWII or the roots of the Indian Mutiny, get…
- (and Catholics give out forgiveness at about the same rate as politicians give out promises and whores give out)
- When I write I am trying to express my way of being in the world. This is primarily a process of elimination: once you have…
- And so it happened again, the daily miracle whereby interiority opens out and brings to bloom the million-petalled flower of being here, in the world,…
- ...despite all this, it is still hard to admit that there is no one more English than the Indian, no one more Indian than the…
- But sometimes it's like you just meet someone and you just know that you're totally connected, and this person is, like, your brother - or…
- Sometimes, one wants to have the illusion that one is making ones own life, out of ones own resources.
- The library was the place I went to find out what there was to know. It was absolutely essential.
- I suppose I often think of my writing as quite impersonal. But it turned out, when my father died, writing was exactly what I wanted…
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