"The ideal reader cannot sleep when holding the……" — Zadie Smith

"The ideal reader cannot sleep when holding the writer he was meant to be with."

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

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More Cannot Sleep Quotes

This quote is filed under Cannot Sleep Quotes, one of 34 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:

The importance of insomnia is so colossal that I am tempted to define man as the animal who cannot sleep.… — Emile M. Cioran
He that is thy friend indeed, - He will help thee in thy need: - If thou sorrow, he will… — Richard Barnfield
I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just: that his justice cannot sleep forever: that, considering… — Thomas Jefferson
But cats to me are strange, so strange I cannot sleep if one is near. — William Henry Davies
It's useless to play lullabies for those who cannot sleep. — John Cage
When I feel well and in a good humour, or when I am taking a drive or walking after a… — Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
I cannot sleep for dreaming; I cannot dream but I wake and walk about the house as though I'd find… — Arthur Miller
Truth is not something you can appropriate easily and quickly. You certainly cannot sleep or dream yourself to the truth.… — Soren Kierkegaard
My secret is I cannot go to bed, I cannot sleep, if my bed is not made before I go… — Kevin Jonas
A man cannot sleep in his cradle: whatever is useful must in the nature of life become useless. — Walter Lippmann
Children, pray for the good of everyone. We should pray to God to give a good mind even to those… — Mata Amritanandamayi
Thank God for sleep! And when you cannot sleep, still thank Him that you live to lie awake. — William Arthur Dunkerley

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