--- title: "14 Want Quotes By Zadie Smith" description: "14 Want quotes by Zadie Smith. Plus more from Zadie Smith and more Want sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f73/zadie-smith-584_talk_you-say-you-want-to-talk-but-you-don-t-y_1085343.png" --- > [You say you want to talk, But you don't . You stonewall me.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/zadie-smith/you-say-you-want-to-talk-but-you-don-t-you-stonewall-me/) [Zadie Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/zadie-smith/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f73/zadie-smith-584_talk_you-say-you-want-to-talk-but-you-don-t-y_1085343.png) > [Like all readers, I want my limits to be drawn by my own sensibilities, not by my melanin count.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/zadie-smith/like-all-readers-i-want-my-limits-to-be-drawn-by-my-own-sensibilities/) [Zadie Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/zadie-smith/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/608/zadie-smith-584_books_like-all-readers-i-want-my-limits-to-be_3102126.png) > [Sometimes, one wants to have the illusion that one is making ones own life, out of ones own resources.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/zadie-smith/sometimes-one-wants-to-have-the-illusion-that-one-is-making-ones-own/) [Zadie Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/zadie-smith/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/472/zadie-smith-584_illusion_sometimes-one-wants-to-have-the-illusion_1079034.png) > [She hopes for nothing except fine weather and a resolution. She wants to end properly, like a good sentence.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/zadie-smith/she-hopes-for-nothing-except-fine-weather-and-a-resolution-she-wants/) [Zadie Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/zadie-smith/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0b0/zadie-smith-584_ends_she-hopes-for-nothing-except-fine-weathe_1388337.png) > [This is what divorce is: taking things you no longer want from people you no longer love.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/zadie-smith/this-is-what-divorce-is-taking-things-you-no-longer-want-from-people/) [Zadie Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/zadie-smith/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/313/zadie-smith-584_divorce_this-is-what-divorce-is-taking-things-yo_896737.png) > [I want to write without shame or pride or over-compensation in one direction or another. To write freely.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/zadie-smith/i-want-to-write-without-shame-or-pride-or-over-compensation-in-one/) [Zadie Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/zadie-smith/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/19c/zadie-smith-584_another_i-want-to-write-without-shame-or-pride-o_1089949.png) > [As far as I'm concerned, if you want to find out about the last day of WWII or the roots of the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/zadie-smith/as-far-as-i-m-concerned-if-you-want-to-find-out-about-the-last-day-of/) [Zadie Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/zadie-smith/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4b3/zadie-smith-584_book_as-far-as-i-m-concerned-if-you-want-to-f_993778.png) > [We cannot be all the writers all the time. We can only be who we are. Which leads me to my second…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/zadie-smith/we-cannot-be-all-the-writers-all-the-time-we-can-only-be-who-we-are/) [Zadie Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/zadie-smith/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/120/zadie-smith-584_leading-me_we-cannot-be-all-the-writers-all-the-tim_679658.png) > [(Feedback) People become addicted to it. That’s why journalism is so popular, because you want to hear, every day, what people think…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/zadie-smith/feedback-people-become-addicted-to-it-that-s-why-journalism-is-so/) [Zadie Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/zadie-smith/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9b6/zadie-smith-584_be-good_feedback-people-become-addicted-to-it-th_182428.jpg) > [Novels are not about expressing yourself, they're about something beautiful, funny, clever and organic. Self-expression? Go and ring a bell in a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/zadie-smith/novels-are-not-about-expressing-yourself-they-re-about-something/) [Zadie Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/zadie-smith/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7c4/zadie-smith-584_beautiful_novels-are-not-about-expressing-yourself_2151665.png) > [My feeling is, having lived in different classes, that people want equality of opportunity... that's the thing that makes me despair: the…](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/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e10/zadie-smith-584_classes_my-feeling-is-having-lived-in-different_115693.png) > [These days, it feels to me like you make a devil's pact when you walk into this country. You hand over your…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/zadie-smith/these-days-it-feels-to-me-like-you-make-a-devil-s-pact-when-you-walk/) [Zadie Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/zadie-smith/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1d8/zadie-smith-584_animal_these-days-it-feels-to-me-like-you-make_1284140.png) > [I have an ambition to write a great book, but that's really a competition with myself. I've noticed that a lot of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/zadie-smith/i-have-an-ambition-to-write-a-great-book-but-that-s-really-a/) [Zadie Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/zadie-smith/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ae1/zadie-smith-584_ambition_i-have-an-ambition-to-write-a-great-book_438253.jpg) > [I remember so clearly, in the early days, if I had to do a piece of press, they'd phone for me and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/zadie-smith/i-remember-so-clearly-in-the-early-days-if-i-had-to-do-a-piece-of/) [Zadie Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/zadie-smith/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e99/zadie-smith-584_assuming_i-remember-so-clearly-in-the-early-days_1586020.png) ## Other authors on Want ## 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/want/zadie-smith/#itemlist", "name": "14 Want Quotes By Zadie Smith", "numberOfItems": 14, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "You say you want to talk, But you don't . 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