Best Zadie Smith Sayings
- 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. Any
- I like books that don't give you an easy ride. I like the feeling of discomfort. The sense of being implicated. Book
- I like books that expose me to people unlike me and books that do battle against caricature or simplification. That, to me, is the heroic… Battle
- I often worry that my idea of personhood is nostalgic, irrational, inaccurate. Idea
- I recognize myself to be an intensely naive person. Most novelists are, despite frequent pretensions to deep socio-political insight. Deep
- I wrote 'White Teeth' in the late nineties. I didn't really feel trepidatious about it. It was a different time. Different Time
- I'm most honest about writing when I'm talking to family or friends, not to newspapers. Family
- If you're going to write a good book, you have to make mistakes and you have to not be so cautious all the time. All
- It's a funny thing about rap, that when you say 'I' into the microphone, it's like a public confession. It's very strange. Confession
- My short stories have always pushed twenty pages. That's no length for a short story to be. You either do them short like Carver or… Always Pushed
- Nowadays, I know the true reason I read is to feel less alone, to make a connection with a consciousness other than my own. Alone
- People profess to have certain political positions, but their conservatism or liberalism is really the least interesting thing about them. Certain
- Tell the truth through whichever veil comes to hand - but tell it. Resign yourself to the lifelong sadness that comes from never being satisfied. Feeling Sad
- The lack of alternatives to an illegal action does not legitimise that action. Action
- World makers, social network makers, ask one question first: 'How can I do it?' Ask
- Writing is my way of expressing - and thereby eliminating - all the various ways we can be wrong-headed. All
- Your mid-thirties is a good time because you know a fair amount, you have some self-control. Amount
- Desperation, weakness, vulnerability - these things will always be exploited. You need to protect the weak, ring-fence them, with something far stronger than empathy. Desperation
- All my books are made up of other books. They're all deeply structured on other fiction, because I was a student in fiction and I… Actual
- Any artist who aligns themselves with a politician is making a category error because what politicians do is not on a human scale, it is… Aligns
- English writing tends to fall into two categories - the big, baggy epic novel or the fairly controlled, tidy novel. For a long time, I… Advantage
- English, as a subject, never really got over its upstart nature. It tries to bulk itself up with hopeless jargon and specious complexity, tries to… Bulk
- I just realized quite early on that I'm not going to be the type who can write a novel every two years. I think you… Act
- I lost many literary battles the day I read 'Their Eyes Were Watching God.' I had to concede that occasionally aphorisms have their power. I… Aphorism
- I never attended a creative writing class in my life. I have a horror of them; most writers groups moonlight as support groups for the… Attended
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