--- title: "15 Might Quotes By Zadie Smith" description: "15 Might quotes by Zadie Smith. Plus more from Zadie Smith and more Might sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fc4/zadie-smith-584_am_it-might-be-useful-to-distinguish-betwee_3117595.png" --- > [It might be useful to distinguish between pleasure and joy. But maybe everybody does this very easily, all the time, and only…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/zadie-smith/it-might-be-useful-to-distinguish-between-pleasure-and-joy-but-maybe-2/) [Zadie Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/zadie-smith/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fc4/zadie-smith-584_am_it-might-be-useful-to-distinguish-betwee_3117595.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) > [The very reason I write is so that I might not sleepwalk through my entire life.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/zadie-smith/the-very-reason-i-write-is-so-that-i-might-not-sleepwalk-through-my/) [Zadie Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/zadie-smith/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/507/zadie-smith-584_entire-life_the-very-reason-i-write-is-so-that-i-mig_2103864.png) > [All my books are made up of other books. They're all deeply structured on other fiction, because I was a student in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/zadie-smith/all-my-books-are-made-up-of-other-books-they-re-all-deeply-structured/) [Zadie Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/zadie-smith/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/27b/zadie-smith-584_book_all-my-books-are-made-up-of-other-books_2146098.jpg) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/zadie-smith/13-5-mrs-wolfe-asks-whether-mr-iqbal-expects-her-susan-to-undertake/) [Zadie Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/zadie-smith/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/814/zadie-smith-584_academic_13-5-mrs-wolfe-asks-whether-mr-iqbal-exp_2701558.png) > [ For me, \[deep structures\] might be something very simply to do with the split in my family. That's why I'm always thinking… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/zadie-smith/for-me-deep-structures-might-be-something-very-simply-to-do-with-the/) [Zadie Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/zadie-smith/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3de/zadie-smith-584_always-thinking_for-me-deep-structures-might-be-somethin_1842373.png) > [And so it happened again, the daily miracle whereby interiority opens out and brings to bloom the million-petalled flower of being here,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/zadie-smith/and-so-it-happened-again-the-daily-miracle-whereby-interiority-opens/) [Zadie Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/zadie-smith/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9a0/zadie-smith-584_easy_and-so-it-happened-again-the-daily-mirac_197480.png) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/zadie-smith/there-s-constantly-this-melancholy-about-british-hip-hop-people-are/) [Zadie Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/zadie-smith/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/160/zadie-smith-584_about_there-s-constantly-this-melancholy-about_2497976.png) > [ I always remind myself that \[ Jean-Paul\] Sartre and \[Simone\] de Beauvoir didn't have children. And when you don't have children, it… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/zadie-smith/i-always-remind-myself-that-jean-paul-sartre-and-simone-de-beauvoir/) [Zadie Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/zadie-smith/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c3f/zadie-smith-584_believe_i-always-remind-myself-that-jean-paul-sa_316002.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) > [We are so convinced of the goodness of ourselves, and the goodness of our love, we cannot bear to believe that there…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/zadie-smith/we-are-so-convinced-of-the-goodness-of-ourselves-and-the-goodness-of/) [Zadie Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/zadie-smith/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/67a/zadie-smith-584_bears_we-are-so-convinced-of-the-goodness-of-o_910583.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) > [She had that thing most people don't have - curiosity. She might not have always got the right answers, but she wanted…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/zadie-smith/she-had-that-thing-most-people-don-t-have-curiosity-she-might-not/) [Zadie Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/zadie-smith/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a4f/zadie-smith-584_answers_she-had-that-thing-most-people-don-t-hav_606012.png) > [Sometimes I think my whole professional life has been based on this hunch I had, early on, that many people feel just…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/zadie-smith/sometimes-i-think-my-whole-professional-life-has-been-based-on-this/) [Zadie Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/zadie-smith/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ec5/zadie-smith-584_aspect_sometimes-i-think-my-whole-professional_265687.png) > [ A lot of \[George Saunders\] early stories now feel prophetic. Take the recent election \[of Donald Trump\]. Historians in 100 years might… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/zadie-smith/a-lot-of-george-saunders-early-stories-now-feel-prophetic-take-the/) [Zadie Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/zadie-smith/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2d4/zadie-smith-584_election_a-lot-of-george-saunders-early-stories-n_1177788.png) ## Other authors on Might ## 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/might/zadie-smith/#itemlist", "name": "15 Might Quotes By Zadie Smith", "numberOfItems": 15, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "It might be useful to distinguish between pleasure and joy. 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