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Thinking Quotes by Zadie Smith
- Sometimes I think my whole professional life has been based on this hunch I had, early on, that many people feel just as muddled as…
- I have an ambition to write a great book, but that's really a competition with myself. I've noticed that a lot of young writers, people…
- 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…
- An essential part of power is the freedom not to think too deeply
- Are there other people who, when watching a documentary set in a prison, secretly think, as I have, 'Wish I had all that time to…
- 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…
- I never attended a creative writing class in my life. I have a horror of them; most writers groups moonlight as support groups for the…
- I wouldn't write about people who are living and who are close to me, because I think it's a very violent thing to do to…
- She had that thing most people don't have - curiosity. She might not have always got the right answers, but she wanted to ask the…
- (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…
- There is no bigger crime, in the English comic novel, than thinking you are right.
More Thinking Quotes
- I don't think about my previous success. I'm happy that the work I've done has been very successful. — Aaliyah
- There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking itself is dangerous. — Hannah Arendt
- Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think. — 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
- You can never guess or assume what anyone is going to think. — J. J. Abrams
- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- I don't think I have a signature. — J. J. Abrams
- It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. — Aristotle
- The soul never thinks without a picture. — Aristotle
- I love working with the right actor, and if the right actor happens to be unknown, that should be allowed, too, I… — J. J. Abrams
- I think you have a passion and an obsession for something when it's not necessarily ubiquitous. — J. J. Abrams