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Zadie Smith Quotes

My short stories have always pushed twenty pages. That's no length for a short story to be. You either do them short like Carver or you stop trying.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: british
Birth: October 25, 1975

Topics

Story Short Trying You Stop Always

To have a job you can count on as an actor is so rare, whether that means belonging to a regional theater company or being on TV.

Job You Belonging Actor Company

My mum had this amazing ability to deflect things, and from an early age, I knew what I was not supposed to talk about.

John Lanchester

Age Amazing Early Talk Ability Knew

One of my great frustrations for 35 years at the paper was the fact I couldn't play a record for the reader when I was writing about an artist. How can you describe the beauty of Emmylou Harris' voice without hearing it, the sensual lilt of a Duane Allman guitar solo without actually hearing it, or the growl of Johnny Rotten without hearing it?

Beauty Great Writing Voice Guitar

The only kind of notebook I actively dislike is the steno pad, entirely because of that vertical line down the middle of the page. I presume it has some arcane secretarial use, but to me, it's both ugly and confusing.

Ugly Me Down Page Kind Line

'Tis better to be fortunate than wise.

Wise Better Fortunate Than Tis

Well, I have a Norwegian father who emigrated to America in the 1950s, and he still speaks with varying degrees of an accent. Over my lifetime my ear has been well-tuned to that accent. Any first generation kid has that wonderful gift from their parents.

Christopher Heyerdahl

Father Parents Gift Generation Kid

I realized I was a country person - I'm just not used to small spaces.

Small Country Person Used Just

Large swathes of people losing faith in democracy is a dangerous thing. Conflict, desperation, totalitarianism are the products of that loss of faith.

Faith Losing People Democracy Loss

I don't have the pressure of being a world-famous bombshell that has detonated.

Pressure Being Bombshell

You try to make the most of each day. I'm not big into setting real specific goals. I think, really, if you just focus on every day - and I know that's the oldest cliche in the book, but it really is true. Day 1 of camp means just as much as Day 17 of camp. If you really try to focus on each and every one of those days, long-term.

Goals Focus Day Book Think You

I became a vegetarian for about maybe a year. It was more of a little detox for me. I tend to do a lot of detoxes. I was on the Body Ecology Diet before I got pregnant, which I believe is one of the reasons I was able to get pregnant.

Me Believe Diet Year Body I Believe

The world is neither wise nor just, but it makes up for all its folly and injustice by being damnably sentimental.

Wise World Injustice Up Sentimental

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