All Zadie Smith Quotes
- The end is simply the beginning of an even longer story. Beginning
- No fiction, no myths, no lies, no tangled webs - this is how Irie imagined her homeland. Because homeland is one of the magical fantasy… Fantasy
- Learning how to be a good reader is what makes you a writer. Funny
- The secret to editing your work is simple: you need to become its reader instead of its writer. Editing
- You don't come to live here unless the delusion of a reality shaped around your own desires isn't a strong aspect of your personality. A… Ambition
- The golden age of Luncheon Vouchers ended ten yearsago. For ten years Mickey had been saying, "The goldenage of Luncheon Vouchers is over." And that's… Adapted
- Make sure the lubricant is unscented. Don't join fashionable 'schools of thought.' Read everything. Fashionable
- Every genuinely literary style, from the high authorial voice to Foster Wallace and his footnotes-within-footnotes, requires the reader to see the world from somewhere in… Attempt
- All tastes are expressions of belief. All
- The nineties, ecstatic decade! Decade
- People don't settle for people. They resolve to be with them. It takes faith. You draw a circle in the sand and agree to stand… Agree
- I do my best work under pressure, so I’ll nick an artery, and my husband isn’t allowed to stanch the bleeding till I’ve banged out… Allowed
- To a novelist, fluidity is the ultimate good omen; suddenly difficult problems are simply solved, intractable structural knots loosen themselves, and you come upon the… Come Upon
- Sometimes Allah punishes and sometimes men have to do it, and it is a wise man who knows if it's Allah's turn or his own. Allah
- Without the balancing context of everyday life, all you have is the news, and news by its nature is generally bad. All
- Women often have a great need to portray themselves as sympathetic and pleasing, but we're also dark people with dark thoughts. Dark
- You can't state difference and also state equality. We have to state sameness to understand equality. Difference
- Asking why rappers always talk about their stuff is like asking why Milton is forever listing the attributes of heavenly armies. Because boasting is a… Always Talk
- All novels attempt to cut neural routes through the brain, to convince us that down this road the true future of the novel lies. All
- As far as I'm concerned, if you want to find out about the last day of WWII or the roots of the Indian Mutiny, get… Book
- Cambridge was a joy. Tediously. People reading books in a posh place. It was my fantasy. I loved it. I miss it still. Book
- Can't a rapper insist, like other artists, on a fictional reality, in which he is somehow still on the corner, despite occupying the penthouse suite? Artist
- Don't confuse honours with achievement. Achievement
- Don't we all know why nerds do what they do? To get money, which leads to popularity, which leads to girls. All
- English fiction was something I loved growing up, and it changed my life - it changed the trajectory of my life. Changed