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I am the sole author of the dictionary that defines me.

Zadie Smith

It’s difficult to tell the truth about how a book begins. The truth, as far as it can be presented to other people, is either wholly banal or too intimate.
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Book People Reveal Tell Truth
You can feel bad… I mean, that’s not illegal.
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Bad Feel Illegal Mean
I’m very attracted to exile literature – particularly Nabokov – exactly because the idea of being away from home for any serious length of time is so inconceivable to me.
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Home Idea Literature
The secret to editing your work is simple: you need to become its reader instead of its writer.
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Edit Secret Simple
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
Don’t confuse honours with achievement.
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Achievement Confuse Honour
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
Make sure the lubricant is unscented. Don’t join fashionable ‘schools of thought.’ Read everything.
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Fashionable Lubricant School
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
Full stories are as rare as honesty.
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Coverage Emotion Full Honesty Story
The greatest lie ever told about love is that it sets you free.
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Country Love Lying People
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
I am the sole author of the dictionary that defines me.
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Author Define Dictionary Sole
Today, writing seems to me like an incredible luxury, almost a perversity, something which hardly exists in the world anymore, where you get to see the fruits of your actions in a daily way.
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Incredible Luxury World Writing
Rarely does one see a squirrel tremble.
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Rarely Squirrels Tremble
You’re a library of me.
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Attention Express Feeling Library

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