--- title: "17 Kind Quotes By Zadie Smith" description: "17 Kind quotes by Zadie Smith. Plus more from Zadie Smith and more Kind sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/690/zadie-smith-584_consciousness_when-people-use-that-stream-of-conscious_1275839.png" --- > [When people use that stream of consciousness, it's kind of just a term they use for anything that looks slightly different on…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/zadie-smith/when-people-use-that-stream-of-consciousness-it-s-kind-of-just-a-term/) [Zadie Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/zadie-smith/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/690/zadie-smith-584_consciousness_when-people-use-that-stream-of-conscious_1275839.png) > [I'm never interested in writing a kind of neutral, universal novel that could be set anywhere. To me, the novel is a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/zadie-smith/i-m-never-interested-in-writing-a-kind-of-neutral-universal-novel/) [Zadie Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/zadie-smith/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d4a/zadie-smith-584_anywhere_i-m-never-interested-in-writing-a-kind-o_2664187.png) > [I never attended a creative writing class in my life. I have a horror of them.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/zadie-smith/i-never-attended-a-creative-writing-class-in-my-life-i-have-a-horror/) [Zadie Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/zadie-smith/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0c4/zadie-smith-584_class_i-never-attended-a-creative-writing-clas_2566026.png) > [There's a perception that novels can't usually allow for your kind of absolute attention to detail.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/zadie-smith/there-s-a-perception-that-novels-can-t-usually-allow-for-your-kind-of/) [Zadie Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/zadie-smith/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e77/zadie-smith-584_absolutes_there-s-a-perception-that-novels-can-t-u_2094396.png) > [I noticed in America that if you write a book of any kind, you're made to be the representative of all the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/zadie-smith/i-noticed-in-america-that-if-you-write-a-book-of-any-kind-you-re-made/) [Zadie Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/zadie-smith/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c7c/zadie-smith-584_america_i-noticed-in-america-that-if-you-write-a_2064573.png) > [I never attended a creative writing class in my life. I have a horror of them; most writers groups moonlight as support…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/zadie-smith/i-never-attended-a-creative-writing-class-in-my-life-i-have-a-horror-2/) [Zadie Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/zadie-smith/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/08f/zadie-smith-584_class_i-never-attended-a-creative-writing-clas_2857573.png) > [I love to dance, and sing - in the shower, not in public. Im too old to go raving, but my fondest…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/zadie-smith/i-love-to-dance-and-sing-in-the-shower-not-in-public-im-too-old-to-go/) [Zadie Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/zadie-smith/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8b4/zadie-smith-584_dance_i-love-to-dance-and-sing-in-the-shower-n_1667361.jpg) > [To me, these kind of everyday miseries act as a fatal disqualifier. My sunniest beliefs are basically contingent on the fact that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/zadie-smith/to-me-these-kind-of-everyday-miseries-act-as-a-fatal-disqualifier-my/) [Zadie Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/zadie-smith/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f7b/zadie-smith-584_belief_to-me-these-kind-of-everyday-miseries-ac_334610.png) > [Some people like just sitting down and being taken for a ride. That's a beautiful thing that fiction can do. But it's…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/zadie-smith/some-people-like-just-sitting-down-and-being-taken-for-a-ride-that-s/) [Zadie Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/zadie-smith/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/884/zadie-smith-584_accept_some-people-like-just-sitting-down-and-b_2210287.png) > [I'm always interested in the way people speak and move in their environment, in a very particular environment. I'm never interested in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/zadie-smith/i-m-always-interested-in-the-way-people-speak-and-move-in-their/) [Zadie Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/zadie-smith/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/61f/zadie-smith-584_books_i-m-always-interested-in-the-way-people_2890496.png) > [If religion is the opiate of the people, tradition is an even more sinister analgesic, simply because it rarely appears sinister. If…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/zadie-smith/if-religion-is-the-opiate-of-the-people-tradition-is-an-even-more/) [Zadie Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/zadie-smith/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b47/zadie-smith-584_band_if-religion-is-the-opiate-of-the-people_2996664.jpg) > [Some people--Samad for example--will tell you not to trust people who overuse the phrase "at the end of the day"--football managers, estate…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/zadie-smith/some-people-samad-for-example-will-tell-you-not-to-trust-people-who/) [Zadie Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/zadie-smith/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/067/zadie-smith-584_agents_some-people-samad-for-example-will-tell_2086902.png) > [There is a kind of desperate need for somebody to tell everyone what to do, which I find really peculiar in America.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/zadie-smith/there-is-a-kind-of-desperate-need-for-somebody-to-tell-everyone-what/) [Zadie Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/zadie-smith/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c89/zadie-smith-584_also_there-is-a-kind-of-desperate-need-for-so_2111854.png) > [I'm just interested in women's friendships generally. It always seems to me, and this is just my pet theory, that women are…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/zadie-smith/i-m-just-interested-in-women-s-friendships-generally-it-always-seems/) [Zadie Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/zadie-smith/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0ce/zadie-smith-584_capitalism_i-m-just-interested-in-women-s-friendshi_2254897.png) > [I guess I've always written more from the opposite perspective, that kind of existentialist perspective which argues that existence precedes essence. And…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/zadie-smith/i-guess-i-ve-always-written-more-from-the-opposite-perspective-that/) [Zadie Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/zadie-smith/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6b6/zadie-smith-584_action_i-guess-i-ve-always-written-more-from-th_2198379.png) > [Last year, when Zora was a freshman, sophomores had seemed altogether a different kind of human: so very definite in their tastes…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/zadie-smith/last-year-when-zora-was-a-freshman-sophomores-had-seemed-altogether-a/) [Zadie Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/zadie-smith/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9c8/zadie-smith-584_different_last-year-when-zora-was-a-freshman-sopho_2326685.png) > [ The last page of \[Lincoln in the Bardo\] - without giving too much away - involves somebody entering somebody else. Not in… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/zadie-smith/the-last-page-of-lincoln-in-the-bardo-without-giving-too-much-away/) [Zadie Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/zadie-smith/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bae/zadie-smith-584_entering_the-last-page-of-lincoln-in-the-bardo-wi_1986495.png) ## Other authors on Kind ## More by Zadie Smith > [- You look fine. - Right. I look fine. Except I don't, said Zora, tugging sadly at her man's nightshirt. This was why Kiki…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/zadie-smith/you-look-fine-right-i-look-fine-except-i-don-t-said-zora-tugging/) [Zadie Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/zadie-smith/) > [“Pretty girls lie at the centre of straight culture, dyke culture, fag culture. They sell everything, they buy everything, they ruin great men and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/zadie-smith/pretty-girls-lie-at-the-centre-of-straight-culture-dyke-culture-fag/) [Zadie Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/zadie-smith/) > [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/zadie-smith/i-have-known-many-true-connoisseurs-with-excellent-tastes-that-range/) [Zadie Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/zadie-smith/) > [I cannot believe homosexuality is that much fun. Heterosexuality certainly is not.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/zadie-smith/i-cannot-believe-homosexuality-is-that-much-fun-heterosexuality/) [Zadie Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/zadie-smith/) > [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/zadie-smith/either-everything-is-sacred-or-nothing-is-and-if-he-starts-burning/) [Zadie Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/zadie-smith/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/zadie-smith/my-feeling-is-having-lived-in-different-classes-that-people-want/) [Zadie Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/zadie-smith/) > [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.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/zadie-smith/i-don-t-keep-any-copies-of-my-books-in-the-house-they-go-to-my-mum-s/) [Zadie Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/zadie-smith/) > [But it makes an immigrant laugh to hear the fears of the nationalist, scared of infection, penetration, miscegenation, when this is small fry, peanuts,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/zadie-smith/but-it-makes-an-immigrant-laugh-to-hear-the-fears-of-the-nationalist/) [Zadie Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/zadie-smith/) > [Oh, I know that. You know me, baby, I cannot be broken. Takes a giant to snap me in half.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/zadie-smith/oh-i-know-that-you-know-me-baby-i-cannot-be-broken-takes-a-giant-to/) [Zadie Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/zadie-smith/) > [“In short, it was precisely the kind of friendship and Englishman makes on holiday, that he can make only on holiday. A friendship that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/zadie-smith/in-short-it-was-precisely-the-kind-of-friendship-and-englishman-makes/) [Zadie Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/zadie-smith/) > [I suppose I often think of my writing as quite impersonal. But it turned out, when my father died, writing was exactly what I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/zadie-smith/i-suppose-i-often-think-of-my-writing-as-quite-impersonal-but-it/) [Zadie Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/zadie-smith/) > [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/zadie-smith/some-of-us-are-happy-with-our-african-hair-thank-you-very-much-i-don/) [Zadie Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/zadie-smith/) > [You can't state difference and also state equality. We have to state sameness to understand equality.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/zadie-smith/you-can-t-state-difference-and-also-state-equality-we-have-to-state/) [Zadie Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/zadie-smith/) > [“(Unlike many others around this time, Joyce felt no shame about using the term 'middle class'. In the Chalfen lexicon the middle classes were…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/zadie-smith/unlike-many-others-around-this-time-joyce-felt-no-shame-about-using/) [Zadie Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/zadie-smith/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/zadie-smith/a-lot-of-women-when-they-re-young-feel-they-have-very-good-friends/) [Zadie Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/zadie-smith/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/kind/zadie-smith/#itemlist", "name": "17 Kind Quotes By Zadie Smith", "numberOfItems": 17, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "When people use that stream of consciousness, it's kind of just a term they use for anything that looks slightly different on the page.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Zadie Smith" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/zadie-smith/when-people-use-that-stream-of-consciousness-it-s-kind-of-just-a-term/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/690/zadie-smith-584_consciousness_when-people-use-that-stream-of-conscious_1275839.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/690/zadie-smith-584_consciousness_when-people-use-that-stream-of-conscious_1275839.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/690/zadie-smith-584_consciousness_when-people-use-that-stream-of-conscious_1275839.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“When people use that stream of consciousness, it's kind of just a term they use for anything that looks…” — Zadie Smith", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "I'm never interested in writing a kind of neutral, universal novel that could be set anywhere. 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