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

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Zadie Smith Novelist and essayist
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 ↗

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Novelist and essayist
To get this prize, I was required to talk about how important a particular European feminist woman writer had been to me. Now the truth was that I had never managed to finish this feminist writer’s book. It did not speak to me. It would have been a lie to claim that she had any major influence on my thinking. […] I could have said that this woman was important to me, and I could have talked the talk, and I could have been given the prize and a shiny present. But I didn’t.

Recorded Wellesley College 137th Commencement, 29 May 2015 source ↗

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