Writing is my way of expressing - and thereby eliminating - all the various ways we can be wrong-headed. — 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
It has historically been a comfort for the bourgeois and that you can read the most extreme books and not change. You… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
The world is now multicultural the same way the world is round. It's not a selling point, it's not a 'quirky' feature,… — 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
I guess I've always written more from the opposite perspective, that kind of existentialist perspective which argues that existence precedes essence. And… — 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
The arena of women's lives is somewhat more intimate. If a woman goes out with an incredibly attractive man and they break… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
I have a natural tendency to feel well about the world, I suppose, one way or another. But then there is the… — 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
And it's just anathema to being a writer. It's not healthy. But in another way, when I'm writing, what it's about for… — 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
Boys are just boys after all, but sometimes girls really seem to be the turn of a pale wrist, or the sudden… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
But sometimes it's like you just meet someone and you just know that you're totally connected, and this person is, like, your… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
When I write I am trying to express my way of being in the world. This is primarily a process of elimination:… — 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
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
Today, writing seems to me like an incredible luxury, almost a perversity, something which hardly exists in the world anymore, where you… — 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
The last page of [Lincoln in the Bardo] - without giving too much away - involves somebody entering somebody else. Not in… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
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 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
“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
“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
I cannot believe homosexuality is that much fun. Heterosexuality certainly is not. — Zadie Smith Copy Share
“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
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
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
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
Oh, I know that. You know me, baby, I cannot be broken. Takes a giant to snap me in half. — Zadie Smith Copy Share
“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
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
“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
You can't state difference and also state equality. We have to state sameness to understand equality. — Zadie Smith Copy Share
“(Unlike many others around this time, Joyce felt no shame about using the term 'middle class'. In the Chalfen lexicon the middle classes were… — Zadie Smith Copy Share
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… — Zadie Smith Copy Share
![“I have a natural tendency to feel well about the world, I suppose, one way or another. But then there is the problem of pain. There are things like [Abraham] Lincoln's beloved little boy dying.” quote by Zadie Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f1a/zadie-smith-584_abraham_i-have-a-natural-tendency-to-feel-well-a_1356936.png)
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