“you’re lucky that you find life so easy, Felix. You’re lucky that you’re happy, that you know how to be happy, that… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
“No, Keeks - this is a good thing. It's been hell - I know it has. But I don't want to be… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
“...'this is real. This life. We're really here - this is really happening. Suffering is real. When you hurt people, it's real.… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
I never attended a creative writing class in my life. I have a horror of them. — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
“[Forster] quotes approvingly from this discussion, from The Magic Flute [by Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson] "Lord Buddha was your gospel true?" "True and… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
“Maybe it doesn't matter that life never blossomed into something larger than itself.” — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
“But he had underestimated the strangeness of talking about the future of his life with someone for whom the future still seemed… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
“A little white woman, . . . [a] tiny little white woman I could fit in my pocket.’ . . . ‘And… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
Life’s not a video game, Felix- there aren’t a certain number of points that send you to the next level. There isn’t… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
I never attended a creative writing class in my life. I have a horror of them; most writers groups moonlight as support… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
“It’s a shadow life and after a while it gets to you. Nannies, assistants, agents, secretaries, mothers---women are used to it. Men… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
Without the balancing context of everyday life, all you have is the news, and news by its nature is generally bad. — 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
