"I never attended a creative writing class in……" — Zadie Smith
"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 kind of people who think that writing is therapeutic. Writing is the exact opposite of therapy."
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191 Quotes by Zadie Smith
Zadie Smith has 191 quotes on this site.
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It was in the air, or so it seemed to Kiki, this hatred of women and their bodies- it seeped…
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A writer's duty is to register what it is like for him or her to be in the world.
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Protect the time and space in which you write. Keep everybody away from it, even the people who are most…
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Our children will be born of our actions. Our accidents will become their destinies. Oh, the actions will remain. It…
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But it makes an immigrant laugh to hear the fears of the nationalist, scared of infection, penetration, miscegenation, when this…
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Most of the cruelty in the world is just misplaced energy.
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Don’t romanticise your ‘vocation’. You can either write good sentences or you can’t. There is no ‘writer’s lifestyle’. All that…
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Sometimes I think my whole professional life has been based on this hunch I had, early on, that many people…
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I remember so clearly, in the early days, if I had to do a piece of press, they'd phone for…
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It's gotten to a point where everybody is concerned about their rights and nobody is concerned about their duties.
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Work on a computer that is disconnected from the internet.
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I have an ambition to write a great book, but that's really a competition with myself. I've noticed that a…
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Goodness is achieved not in a vacuum, but in the company of other men, attended by love.
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Frankly, I'm not sure how far I would get if I attended public school today. It's not just that public…
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In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.
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I had a terrible education. I attended a school for emotionally disturbed teachers.
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When I was a kid, I attended a small Catholic school in a south suburb of Chicago.
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Peace, which costs nothing, is attended with infinitely more advantage than any victory with all its expence.
— Thomas Paine
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The number of humble-bees in any district depends in a great degree on the number of field-mice, which destroy their…
— Charles Darwin
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Nothing more unqualified the man to act with prudence than a misfortune that is attended with shame and guilt.
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Two people have been living in you all your life. One is the ego, garrulous, demanding, hysterical, calculating - the…
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The diminution of public virtue is usually attended with that of public happiness, and the public liberty will not long…
— Samuel Adams
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During my second year at Edinburgh [1826-27] I attended Jameson's lectures on Geology and Zoology, but they were incredible dull.…
— Charles Darwin
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I have spent much time in the study of the abstract sciences; but the paucity of persons with whom you…
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