There is no bigger crime, in the English comic novel, than thinking you are right. — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
When I see my friends engaging in a Twitter war for an afternoon, I think that would destroy me for a month. — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
I wouldn't write about people who are living and who are close to me, because I think it's a very violent thing… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
When I was 13, I really used to skip down the street, happy in thinking, "Oh, well, someone's suffering pain in order… — 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
(Feedback) People become addicted to it. That’s why journalism is so popular, because you want to hear, every day, what people think… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
Are there other people who, when watching a documentary set in a prison, secretly think, as I have, 'Wish I had all… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
I know a lot of people who read and think: "George [Saunders] is so much fun." There's no denying you're fun to… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
I was thinking about the generation before us, like John Barth and all of those pomo dudes who had that idea of,… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
I was brought up with the sense that I was absolutely no different from my brothers. I went to college thinking I… — 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
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 just realized quite early on that I'm not going to be the type who can write a novel every two years.… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
I have an ambition to write a great book, but that's really a competition with myself. I've noticed that a lot of… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
I used to take that God's-eye view as a comfort when I was a child. I'd think, "Well, we couldn't find the… — 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
I never attended a creative writing class in my life. I have a horror of them. — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
It's a feeling of happiness that knocks me clean out of adjectives. I think sometimes that the best reason for writing novels… — 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
![“For me, [deep structures] might be something very simply to do with the split in my family. That's why I'm always thinking about opposites. It's so childish, really, but that might be simply what it is.” quote by Zadie Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/3de/zadie-smith-584_always-thinking_for-me-deep-structures-might-be-somethin_1842373.jpg)
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