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My life is black and white and mixed. My mother's a Rastafarian, my dad was a short white guy - it's not an affectation. It's also the lives of millions of people throughout the world.
— Zadie Smith
Tags: black-and-white, people, mother, life

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Normally, young writers have all the time in the world and they don't always use it well.
— Zadie Smith
Tags: young, always, world, time
English fiction was something I loved growing up, and it changed my life - it changed the trajectory of my life.
— Zadie Smith
Tags: growing-up, loved, my-life, life
Protect the time and space in which you write. Keep everybody away from it, even the people who are most important to you.
— Zadie Smith
Tags: space, people, time, you
Women often have a great need to portray themselves as sympathetic and pleasing, but we're also dark people with dark thoughts.
— Zadie Smith
Tags: people, thoughts, great, women
All my books are made up of other books. They're all deeply structured on other fiction, because I was a student in fiction and I didn't have much actual living to draw on. I suspect a lot of other people's novels are like that, too, though they might be slower to talk about it.
— Zadie Smith
Tags: living, student, like, people
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