The secret to editing your work is simple: you need to become its reader instead of its writer. - Zadie Smith - Quotesmemo.com

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Zadie Smith

The secret to editing your work is simple: you need to become its reader instead of its writer.

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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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It's like the piano and the cello are being poured into my body, the same way the IV and blood transfusions are. And the memories of my life as it was, and the flashes of it as it might be, are coming so fast and furious. I feel like I can no longer keep up with them but they keep coming and everything is colliding, until I cannot take anymore. Until I cannot be like this a second longer.

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While learning to code may have once been an arduous or expensive process, the college dropouts who developed Codecademy have democratized coding as surely as Gutenberg democratized text. Anyone can go to Codecademy and start learning and creating code through their simple, fun, interactive window, for free.

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Intellectuals are in a position to expose the lies of governments, to analyze actions according to their causes and motives and often hidden intentions.

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A man pleaser cannot be true to God, because he is a servant to the enemies of his service; the wind of a man's mouth will drive him about as the chaff, from any duty, and to any sin.

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Don't confuse fun with fulfillment, or pleasure with happiness.

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