Writing Quote by Zadie Smith: I Want to Write Without Shame

"I want to write without shame or pride or over-compensation in one direction or another. To write freely."

– Zadie Smith

(Born 25 October 1975)

Zadie Adeline Smith FRSL is an English novelist, essayist, and short-story writer. Her debut novel, White Teeth, immediately became a best-seller and won a number of awards. She has been a tenured professor in the Creative Writing faculty of New York University since September 2010. Wikipedia

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Writing Quote by Zadie Smith: Writing Short Stories

"My short stories have always pushed twenty pages. That’s no length for a short story to be. You either do them short like Carver or you stop trying."

– Zadie Smith

(Born 25 October 1975)

Zadie Adeline Smith FRSL is an English novelist, essayist, and short-story writer. Her debut novel, White Teeth, immediately became a best-seller and won a number of awards. She has been a tenured professor in the Creative Writing faculty of New York University since September 2010. Wikipedia

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Writing Quote by Zadie Smith: Confidence Trick When Writing a Novel

"It’s such a confidence trick, writing a novel. The main person you have to trick into confidence is yourself. This is hard to do alone."

– Zadie Smith

(Born 25 October 1975)

Zadie Adeline Smith FRSL is an English novelist, essayist, and short-story writer. Her debut novel, White Teeth, immediately became a best-seller and won a number of awards. She has been a tenured professor in the Creative Writing faculty of New York University since September 2010. Wikipedia

Zadie Smith books at Amazon