The library was the place I went to find out what there was to know. It was absolutely essential.
ZADIE SMITHWe cannot love something solely because it has been ignored. It must also be worthy of our attention.
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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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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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The greatest lie ever told about love is that it sets you free.
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When I was young, I was very technical about these things. I didn’t like to admit to any intimate relation with what I was writing.
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You’re a library of me.
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Rarely does one see a squirrel tremble.
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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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People profess to have certain political positions, but their conservatism or liberalism is really the least interesting thing about them.
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Make sure the lubricant is unscented. Don’t join fashionable ‘schools of thought.’ Read everything.
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Time is how you spend your love.
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The lack of alternatives to an illegal action does not legitimise that action.
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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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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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We cannot love something solely because it has been ignored. It must also be worthy of our attention.
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Full stories are as rare as honesty.
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