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Write Quotes by Zadie Smith
- Protect the time and space in which you write. Keep everybody away from it, even the people who are most important to you.
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- When I was 21, I wanted to write like Kafka. But, unfortunately for me, I wrote like a script editor for 'The Simpsons' who'd briefly…
- 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…
- The very reason I write is so that I might not sleepwalk through my entire life.
- We cannot be all the writers all the time. We can only be who we are. Which leads me to my second point: writers do…
- 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…
- I want to write without shame or pride or over-compensation in one direction or another. To write freely.
More Write Quotes
- Writing makes you feel that there is a reason to go on living. If I couldn't write, I would stop breathing. — Paul Auster
- I write the paragraph, then I'm crossing out, changing words, trying to improve it. When it seems more or less OK, then… — Paul Auster
- In every song I write, whether it's a love song or a political song or a song about family, the one thing… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- I grew up in a working-class family, so I guess you could say I write from what I know. — Andrea Arnold
- I write for the same reason I breathe - because if I didn't, I would die. — Isaac Asimov
- As we have seen, WikiLeaks is a robust organization. During my time in solitary confinement in the basement of a Victorian prison,… — Julian Assange
- Because I write fiction, I don't write autobiography, and to me they are very different things. The first-person narrative is a very… — Kate Atkinson
- If I waited for perfection... I would never write a word. — Margaret Atwood