And so it happened again, the daily miracle whereby interiority opens out and brings to bloom the million-petalled flower of being here,… — 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
I always remind myself that [ Jean-Paul] Sartre and [Simone] de Beauvoir didn't have children. And when you don't have children, it… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
She had that thing most people don't have - curiosity. She might not have always got the right answers, but she wanted… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
We are so convinced of the goodness of ourselves, and the goodness of our love, we cannot bear to believe that there… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
A lot of [George Saunders] early stories now feel prophetic. Take the recent election [of Donald Trump]. Historians in 100 years might… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
For me, [deep structures] might be something very simply to do with the split in my family. That's why I'm always thinking… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
I noticed in America that if you write a book of any kind, you're made to be the representative of all the… — 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
Last year, when Zora was a freshman, sophomores had seemed altogether a different kind of human: so very definite in their tastes… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
There's constantly this melancholy about British hip-hop. People are always waiting for it to explode like American hip-hop, but it might just… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
13.5 Mrs. Wolfe asks whether Mr. Iqbal expects her Susan to undertake compulsory headstands. 13.6 Mr. Iqbal infers that, considering Susan's academic… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
If religion is the opiate of the people, tradition is an even more sinister analgesic, simply because it rarely appears sinister. If… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
It might be useful to distinguish between pleasure and joy. But maybe everybody does this very easily, all the time, and only… — 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
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