You become a different writer when you approach a short story. When things are not always having to represent other things, you find real human beings begin to cautiously appear on your pages.
Zadie SmithFate is a quantity very much like TV: an unstoppable narrative, written, produced and directed by somebody else.
Zadie SmithIt’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 SmithPeople profess to have certain political positions, but their conservatism or liberalism is really the least interesting thing about them.
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