When people use that stream of consciousness, it's kind of just a term they use for anything that looks slightly different on… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
People profess to have certain political positions, but their conservatism or liberalism is really the least interesting thing about them. — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
People don't settle for people. They resolve to be with them. It takes faith. You draw a circle in the sand and… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
Every genuinely literary style, from the high authorial voice to Foster Wallace and his footnotes-within-footnotes, requires the reader to see the world… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
Protect the time and space in which you write. Keep everybody away from it, even the people who are most important to… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
I love to dance, and sing - in the shower, not in public. Im too old to go raving, but my fondest… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
In my situation, every time I write a sentence, I'm thinking not only of the people I ended up in college with… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
I think I know a thing or two about the way people love, but I don't know anything about hatred, psychosis, cruelty.… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
In a whisper he began begging for—and, as the sun set, received—the concession people always beg for: a little more time. — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
Other people’s words are so important. And then without warning they stop being important, along with all those words of yours that… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
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… — 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
Unless you consider yourself some sort of human brand, which I don't, you have to deal with the fact that different people… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
Some people like just sitting down and being taken for a ride. That's a beautiful thing that fiction can do. But it's… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
I'm just interested in women's friendships generally. It always seems to me, and this is just my pet theory, that women are… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
A lot of people seem to feel that joy is only the most intense version of pleasure, arrived at by the same… — 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
I never attended a creative writing class in my life. I have a horror of them. — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
It seems that if you put people on paper and move them through time, you cannot help but talk about ethics, because… — 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
150 years ago in [Charles] Dickens's time there was at least a sense of craft. So some of the things people had… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
I'm always interested in the way people speak and move in their environment, in a very particular environment. I'm never interested in… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
You know, you don't expect everyone to be as educated as everyone else or have the same achievements, but you expect at… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
It was in the air, or so it seemed to Kiki, this hatred of women and their bodies- it seeped in with… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
Young people understand the world. They should be listened to on matters of politics and world organization. But they know nothing of… — 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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