Seems Quotes by Zadie Smith

The belief that consciousness extends beyond death is surely to put more belief in the permanence of self, not less. That seems…

— Zadie Smith

It seems to me now that the deep structures [in writing] are often subconscious and set in childhood.

— Zadie Smith

Today, writing seems to me like an incredible luxury, almost a perversity, something which hardly exists in the world anymore, where you…

— Zadie Smith

That's the thing about fiction writers: what seems alarming or particular or perverse about them is simply the shape of their brain…

— Zadie Smith

I know to argue against our online lives seems like the argument of the grumpy, old Luddite novelist, but I really always…

— Zadie Smith

It seems to me that we often commit ourselves wholly to something while knowing almost nothing concrete about it. Another word for…

— Zadie Smith

I don't take notes. I don't have any notebooks. I keep on trying to do that because it seems like a very…

— Zadie Smith

It seems that if you put people on paper and move them through time, you cannot help but talk about ethics, because…

— Zadie Smith

The conflation of the simple in style with the morally prescriptive in character, and the complex in style with the amoral or…

— Zadie Smith

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

For example, you have these grotesque, hilarious, profane ghosts in the book [Lincoln in the Bardo]. Even the concept of talking ghosts…

— Zadie Smith

I was brought up with the sense that I was absolutely no different from my brothers. I went to college thinking I…

— Zadie Smith