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About Zadie Smith
English novelist, essayist, and short-story writer
Zadie Smith is an English novelist, essayist, and short-story writer. Her debut novel, White Teeth, appeared in 2000 and quickly became a best-seller, bringing her wide attention. She has 153 quotes on the site. Smith’s first novel also won several awards. In September 2010, she became a tenured professor in the creative writing faculty at New York University.
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- “Don't romanticise your 'vocation.' You can either write good sentences or you can't. There is no 'writer's li…”Zadie Smith
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- “She was the kind of person who never gave you enough time to miss her.”Zadie Smith
- “My mind does not easily accept stately historical processions.”Zadie Smith
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- “If you go through life expecting nothing chances are you'll be content most of the time.”Mark W. Boyer
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- “Shakespeare tells the same stories over and over in so many guises that it takes a long time before you notic…”Howard Nemerov
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Books by Zadie Smith
White Teeth
2001
On Beauty
2005
The Autograph Man
2003
Swing Time
2017
Changing my mind
2009