Under every friendship there is a difficult sentence that must be said, in order that the friendship can be survived. — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
When a human being becomes a set of data on a website like Facebook, he or she is reduced. Everything shrinks. Individual… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
A lot of women, when they're young, feel they have very good friends, and find later on that friendship is complicated. It's… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
When I see my friends engaging in a Twitter war for an afternoon, I think that would destroy me for a month. — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
I'm most honest about writing when I'm talking to family or friends, not to newspapers. — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
A lot of women, when they're young, feel they have very good friends, and find later on that friendship is complicated. It's… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
“In short, it was precisely the kind of friendship and Englishman makes on holiday, that he can make only on holiday. A… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
“It's like that quote: 'If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
In my situation, every time I write a sentence, I'm thinking not only of the people I ended up in college with… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
“When a human being becomes a set of data on a website like Facebook, he or she is reduced. Everything shrinks. Individual… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
“...within our intimacy, I could not be a girl, nor could I be anyone's baby, I could only be a female human,… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
“Keisha Blake, whose celebrated will and focus did not leave her much room for angst, watched her friend ascend to the top… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
I'm just interested in women's friendships generally. It always seems to me, and this is just my pet theory, that women are… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
“They were married before they were friends, which is another way of saying: Their marriage was the occasion of their friendship. They… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
- You look fine. - Right. I look fine. Except I don't, said Zora, tugging sadly at her man's nightshirt. This was why Kiki… — Zadie Smith Copy Share
“Pretty girls lie at the centre of straight culture, dyke culture, fag culture. They sell everything, they buy everything, they ruin great men and… — Zadie Smith Copy Share
“I have known many true connoisseurs, with excellent tastes that range across the humanities and the culinary arts--and they never fail to have a… — Zadie Smith Copy Share
I cannot believe homosexuality is that much fun. Heterosexuality certainly is not. — Zadie Smith Copy Share
“Either everything is sacred or nothing is. And if he starts burning other people’s things, then he loses something sacred also. Everyone gets what’s… — Zadie Smith Copy Share
My feeling is, having lived in different classes, that people want equality of opportunity... that's the thing that makes me despair: the idea that… — Zadie Smith Copy Share
I don't keep any copies of my books in the house - they go to my mum's flat. I don't like them around. — Zadie Smith Copy Share
But it makes an immigrant laugh to hear the fears of the nationalist, scared of infection, penetration, miscegenation, when this is small fry, peanuts,… — Zadie Smith Copy Share
Oh, I know that. You know me, baby, I cannot be broken. Takes a giant to snap me in half. — Zadie Smith Copy Share
“In short, it was precisely the kind of friendship and Englishman makes on holiday, that he can make only on holiday. A friendship that… — Zadie Smith Copy Share
I suppose I often think of my writing as quite impersonal. But it turned out, when my father died, writing was exactly what I… — Zadie Smith Copy Share
“Some of us are happy with our African hair, thank you very much. I don't want some poor Indian girl's hair. And I wish… — Zadie Smith Copy Share
You can't state difference and also state equality. We have to state sameness to understand equality. — Zadie Smith Copy Share
“(Unlike many others around this time, Joyce felt no shame about using the term 'middle class'. In the Chalfen lexicon the middle classes were… — Zadie Smith Copy Share
A lot of women, when they're young, feel they have very good friends, and find later on that friendship is complicated. It's easy to… — Zadie Smith Copy Share
