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Zadie Smith

Novelist and essayist

United Kingdom · b. 1975

English novelist and essayist, author of White Teeth, On Beauty, NW and Swing Time, and of the essay collections Changing My Mind and Feel Free. She teaches fiction at New York University.

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In the last five years, what have you become better at saying no to?

Protect the time and space in which you write. Keep everybody away from it, even the people who are most important to you.

Recorded The Guardian Review, 20 February 2010 source

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