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Zadie Smith on the Psychology of the Two Types of Writers “It’s a feeling of happiness that knocks me clean out of adjectives. I think sometimes that the best reason for writing novels is to experience those four and a half hours after you write the final word.” By Maria Popova On March 24, 2008, two years before she penned her oft-cited ten rules of writing, the immeasurably brilliant Zadie Smith delivered a lecture at Columbia University’s Writing Program under the brief “to speak ...

Sides doing things, as i said earlier, i dont think -- i dont think there was ever any orchestrated effort to try to pressure the president. there was no doubt where the military stood but i think the speaking out publicly about it did help foster that distrust. i think there were clearly people inside the white house, and i think mainly the vice president who were stoking that fire. >> you said what you saw up close is truly eggly most of congress is uncivil, incompetent at fulfilling their bas...

Sides doing things, as i said earlier, i dont think -- i dont think there was ever any orchestrated effort to try to pressure the president. there was no doubt where the military stood but i think the speaking out publicly about it did help foster that distrust. i think there were clearly people inside the white house, and i think mainly the vice president who were stoking that fire. >> you said what you saw up close is truly eggly most of congress is uncivil, incompetent at fulfilling their bas...

He said -- quote -- "the controlling nature of the obama white house and its determination to take credit for every good thing that happened while giving none to the career folks in the trenches who had actually done the work offended secretary clinton as much as it did me." >> in fact, at one meeting in the oval office in 2010, gates with a so incensed as the white house micro managers, mr. gates writes that from day one it was all about getting reelected. so everything, whether it was domestic...