"A writer's duty is to register what it……" — Zadie Smith

A writer's duty is to register what it is like for him… - Zadie Smith

"A writer's duty is to register what it is like for him or her to be in the world."

— Zadie Smith

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191 Quotes by Zadie Smith

Zadie Smith has 191 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

It was in the air, or so it seemed to Kiki, this hatred of women and their bodies- it seeped…
Protect the time and space in which you write. Keep everybody away from it, even the people who are most…
Our children will be born of our actions. Our accidents will become their destinies. Oh, the actions will remain. It…
But it makes an immigrant laugh to hear the fears of the nationalist, scared of infection, penetration, miscegenation, when this…
Most of the cruelty in the world is just misplaced energy.
Don’t romanticise your ‘vocation’. You can either write good sentences or you can’t. There is no ‘writer’s lifestyle’. All that…
Sometimes I think my whole professional life has been based on this hunch I had, early on, that many people…
I remember so clearly, in the early days, if I had to do a piece of press, they'd phone for…
It's gotten to a point where everybody is concerned about their rights and nobody is concerned about their duties.
Work on a computer that is disconnected from the internet.
I have an ambition to write a great book, but that's really a competition with myself. I've noticed that a…
Anyone over the age of thirty catching a bus can consider himself a failure.

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In doing what we ought we deserve no praise, because it is our duty. — Saint Augustine
No eulogy is due to him who simply does his duty and nothing more. — Saint Augustine
A powerful attraction exists, therefore, to the promotion of a study and of duties of all others engrossing the time… — Charles Babbage
Those from whose pocket the salary is drawn, and by whose appointment the officer was made, have always a right… — Charles Babbage
We never fail when we try to do our duty, we always fail when we neglect to do it. — Robert Baden-Powell
Doing what you do well is death. Your duty is to keep trying to do things that you don't do… — John Banville
We are all one - or at least we should be - and it is our job, our duty, and… — Roy Barnes
We'll try to cooperate fully with the IRS, because, as citizens, we feel a strong patriotic duty not to go… — Dave Barry
An artist has every right - one may even say a duty - to exhibit his productions as prominently as… — Jacques Barzun
The liberties of our country, the freedom of our civil constitution, are worth defending against all hazards: And it is… — Samuel Adams
Presidents have the right to nominate their own cabinet secretaries. But their nominees don't have a right to confirmation. Senators… — Gary Bauer
Defending the truth is not something one does out of a sense of duty or to allay guilt complexes, but… — Simone de Beauvoir

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