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The early '20s were like the waist of an hourglass. Lots of things were hurtling toward it and squeezing through it and then hurtling out the other side.

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I do love the past but wouldn't want to live in it.

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My story is the story of many postwar British families. Upward mobility. A council house and then new affluence.

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My parents were the first in our family to go to grammar school. My grandparents were in service.

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My nan was a nursery maid. Most people weren't in big houses. They were maids of all work.

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Sometimes I think I'd be perfectly happy to go on rewriting 'Tipping the Velvet' forever because it was so much fun.

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Ours is a world which feels so unsettled and dangerous in large ways, whether it's terrorism or global financial meltdown or climate change - huge things that affect us deeply, and yet things about which we can do, individually, very little.

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I'm interested in stories that aren't getting told: it's where my interests lie.

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I used to write at home, but it didn't ever occur to me to be a writer.

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People say, 'You're like Dickens', but I'm not like Dickens. Zadie Smith is a Dickensian writer because she's writing about society now, just as Dickens was writing about his society.

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Biography

Nationality: Welsh

Type: Novelist

Born: July 21st, 1966

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