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Zadie Smith

The young people have a phrase for this now, which is “slay in your lane.” That’s a very important principle of writing. You have to work out what it is you can’t do, obscure it, and focus on what works.
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Out People Work Writing
Make sure the lubricant is unscented. Don’t join fashionable ‘schools of thought.’ Read everything.
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Fashionable Lubricant School
…They cannot escape their history any more than you yourself can lose your shadow.
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Lose Shadow Teeth White
People profess to have certain political positions, but their conservatism or liberalism is really the least interesting thing about them.
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Interesting People Political
Cambridge was a joy. Tediously. People reading books in a posh place. It was my fantasy. I loved it. I miss it still.
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Book People Reading
I recognize myself to be an intensely naive person. Most novelists are, despite frequent pretensions to deep socio-political insight.
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Insight Novelist Political
I am the sole author of the dictionary that defines me.
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Author Define Dictionary Sole
Don’t confuse honours with achievement.
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Achievement Confuse Honour
One thing you learn about the novel as a form is that it’s always smarter than you are.
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Form Novel Smarter
The greatest lie ever told about love is that it sets you free.
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Country Love Lying People
Something in me was changed by Lincoln in the Bardo, and the great sublime/grotesque risk of [George Saunders’] ghosts was a part of it.
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Ghost Risk Sublime
The library was the place I went to find out what there was to know. It was absolutely essential.
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Absolutely Essential Library
Rarely does one see a squirrel tremble.
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Rarely Squirrels Tremble
Full stories are as rare as honesty.
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Coverage Emotion Full Honesty Story
We cannot love something solely because it has been ignored. It must also be worthy of our attention.
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Attention Ignored Something Worthy
The lack of alternatives to an illegal action does not legitimise that action.
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Action Alternatives Lack

Time is how you spend your love.

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