The choices a writer makes within a tradition - preferring Milton to Moliere, caring for Barth over Barthelme … - Zadie Smith

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The majority of human beings live their whole lives unaware that they are only seeing a limited cone of vision at any moment.

Zadie Smith

The choices a writer makes within a tradition - preferring Milton to Moliere, caring for Barth over Barthelme - constitute some of the most personal information we can have about him.

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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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If a man were called to fix the period in the history of the world during which the condition of the human race was most happy and prosperous, he would, without hesitation, name that which elapsed from the death of Domitian to the accession of Commodus.

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Believe while others are doubting.

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Life is not inherently meaningful. We make meaning happen through the attention and care we express through our actions.

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