I'm always interested in the way people speak and move in their environment, in a very particular environment. … - Zadie Smith - Quotesmemo.com

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Zadie Smith

I'm always interested in the way people speak and move in their environment, in a very particular environment. I'm never interested in writing a kind of neutral, universal novel that could be set anywhere. To me, the any novel is a local thing always.

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Protect the time and space in which you write. Keep everybody away from it, even the people who are most important to you.

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The past is always tense, the future perfect.

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Don’t romanticise your ‘vocation’. You can either write good sentences or you can’t. There is no ‘writer’s lifestyle’. All that matters is what you leave on the page.

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Time is how you spend your love.

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Every moment happens twice: inside and outside, and they are two different histories.

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We all feel disabled in some way. We all feel imperfect. It's hard to be looked at for various reasons.

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I think people in England take things for granted, we complain about our NHS system and yes it's not perfect but believe me it's far better than what they've got here.

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We become full human agents, capable of understanding ourselves, and hence of defining our identity, through our acquisition of rich human languages of expression.

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[T]he only thing the United States government ever did about slavery was to abolish it. Perhaps that was a mistake, but I do not feel inclined to apologize for it.

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