Zadie Smith quote: I think of reading like a balanced diet; if your sentences are too baggy, too baroque, cut back on fatty ...

I think of reading like a balanced diet; if your sentences are too baggy, too baroque, cut back on fatty Foster Wallace, say, and pick up Kafka as roughage.

~ Zadie Smith ~

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