Step back from your Facebook Wall for a moment: Doesn't it, suddenly, look a little ridiculous? Your life in this format? — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
It's got two aspects. The bit that involves the public life I could not really tolerate and cannot really tolerate. I just… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
Sometimes I think my whole professional life has been based on this hunch I had, early on, that many people feel just… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
My life is black and white and mixed. My mother's a Rastafarian, my dad was a short white guy - it's not… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
“Not everyone wants this conventional little life you’re rowing your boat toward. I like my river of fire. And when it’s time… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
If you asked me if I wanted more joyful experiences in my life, I wouldn't be at all sure I did, exactly… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
“What do you want to do Marvin?" croaked Alex, and then coughed the frog out. "Excuse me?" "Apart from being a milk… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
“People talk about the happy quiet that can exist between two loves, but this, too, was great; sitting between his sister and… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
“Life was an enormous rucksack so impossibly heavy that, even though it meant losing everything, it was infinitely easier to leave all… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
I just can't get used to the idea of being somebody unreal in people's minds. I can't live my life like that.… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
“I want to stay still and to keep moving. I want this life and another.” — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
Sometimes, one wants to have the illusion that one is making ones own life, out of ones own resources. — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
When I was 21, I wanted to write like Kafka. But, unfortunately for me, I wrote like a script editor for 'The… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
“Don't you think they're as bored as you are? You think you're somebody special? You think I wake up everyday so happy… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
Every moment happens twice: inside and outside, and they are two different histories. — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
“Travel had seemed the key to the kingdom, back then. One dreamed of a life that would enable travel. Howard looked through… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
“People talk about the happy quiet that can exist between two lovers, but this too was great; sitting between his sister and… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
“I think Seneca is right: life feels longer the more you engage with it.... I should be loving sculpture! But I have… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
This is what a woman is: unadorned, after children and work and age, and experience-these are the marks of living. — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
English fiction was something I loved growing up, and it changed my life - it changed the trajectory of my life. — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
The very reason I write is so that I might not sleepwalk through my entire life. — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
All my books are made up of other books. They're all deeply structured on other fiction, because I was a student in… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
I guess I've always written more from the opposite perspective, that kind of existentialist perspective which argues that existence precedes essence. And… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
“Involved. At least that was the right word, Alsana reflected, as she liftes her foot off the pedal, and let the wheel… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
You must live life with the full knowledge that your actions will remain. We are creatures of consequence. — 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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
I cannot believe homosexuality is that much fun. Heterosexuality certainly is not. — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
Oh, I know that. You know me, baby, I cannot be broken. Takes a giant to snap me in half. — 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 friendship that… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
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 Image
“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 Image
