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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
For me, George Saunders novel [Lincoln in the Bardo] is about a problem of pain.
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Novel Pain Problem
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
I am the sole author of the dictionary that defines me.
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Author Define Dictionary Sole
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
…They cannot escape their history any more than you yourself can lose your shadow.
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Lose Shadow Teeth White
Rarely does one see a squirrel tremble.
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Rarely Squirrels Tremble
I cannot believe homosexuality is that much fun. Heterosexuality certainly is not.
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Belief Fun Heterosexuality
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
Make sure the lubricant is unscented. Don’t join fashionable ‘schools of thought.’ Read everything.
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Fashionable Lubricant School
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
Time is how you spend your love.
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Emotion Express Feeling Love Spend
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
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
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
Full stories are as rare as honesty.
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Coverage Emotion Full Honesty Story

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