"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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Source : "Zadie Smith's rules for writers". www.theguardian.com. February 22, 2010.

Zadie Smith

#Writing Quotes #Space Quotes #People Quotes

“My books are written with a strong chronological spine.”
“I think my real fear is that I will get to old age and think I spent too much time concerned about the way that I look and other bullshit. That's really a fear of mine.”

Source : "Grace And Frankie's June Diane Raphael on the joy of calling Donald Trump a 'little bitch'". Interview with Alex McLevy, tv.avclub.com. March 22, 2017.
“The same one who mistreated you will end up needing you.... It is the circle of life.”
“It may seem like I came out of the blue. But, my road was long, windy, full of hurdles, and even some dead ends. I lost family. I lost friends. I even lost my way. When I reached what felt like rock bottom, I realized I had a responsibility to everyone who believed in me and to kids, like me, who just needed a chance and something to believe in.”
“You would not let your kids do whatever they want. So the challenge is to create accountability in a non-mechanistic way. You cannot come in with a clipboard and check off boxes and figure out why something has not been done on schedule.”

Source : Interview with Joel Kurtzman, www.strategy-business.com. October 1, 1996.
“It is no accident that you are reading this. I am making black marks on white paper. These marks are my thoughts, and although I do not know who you are reading this...the lines of our lives have intersected. For the length of these few sentences, we meet here. It is no accident that you are reading this. This moment has been waiting for you, I have been waiting for you. Remember me.”
“In a room where people unanimously maintain a conspiracy of silence, one word of truth sounds like a pistol shot.”

Source : Czeslaw Milosz's Nobel Lecture, www.nobelprize.org. December 8, 1980.
“I became a vegetarian out of concern for animals, but I wasn't a vegetarian long before I realized there's something to that. I don't think I would have worked for the past five years probably were it not for my vegetarian diet.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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