Meet bear Zadie Smith
Zadie Smith FRSL (born 1975) is an English novelist, essayist and short-story writer.
When I write I am trying to express my way of being in the world. This is primarily a process of elimination: once you have removed all the dead language, the second-hand dogma, the truths that are not your own but other people's, the mottos, the slogans, the out-and-out lies of your nation, the myths of your historical moment – once you have removed all that warps experience into a shape you do not recognise and do not believe in – what you are left with is something approximating the truth of your own conception. - Zadie Smith
Cat Rabbit 'Zadie Smith' 2021, felt, fabric, thread, wire. Courtesy the artist.
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