Best Zadie Smith Quotations
- I read Carver. Julio Cortazar. Amis's essays. Baldwin. Lorrie Moore. Capote. Saramago. Larkin. Wodehouse. Anything, anything at all, that doesn't sound like me. All
- I tap danced for ten years before I began to understand people don't make musicals anymore. All I wanted to do was be at MGM… All
- I wouldn't write about people who are living and who are close to me, because I think it's a very violent thing to do to… Another Person
- I'm very attracted to exile literature - particularly Nabokov - exactly because the idea of being away from home for any serious length of time… Any
- It seems that if you put people on paper and move them through time, you cannot help but talk about ethics, because the ethical realm… Action
- It's difficult to tell the truth about how a book begins. The truth, as far as it can be presented to other people, is either… Banal
- Novels are not about expressing yourself, they're about something beautiful, funny, clever and organic. Self-expression? Go and ring a bell in a yard if you… Beautiful
- The roots of rap are originally ghetto-ised or extremely working class. So when you're an artist who's making something which isn't how its mainstream appearance… Appearance
- When a human being becomes a set of data on a website like Facebook, he or she is reduced. Everything shrinks. Individual character. Friendships. Language.… Becomes
- When I was 21, I wanted to write like Kafka. But, unfortunately for me, I wrote like a script editor for 'The Simpsons' who'd briefly… Briefly
- You become a different writer when you approach a short story. When things are not always having to represent other things, you find real human… Appear
- She wore her sexuality with an older woman's ease, and not like an awkward purse, never knowing how to hold it, where to hang it,… Awkward
- The past is always tense, the future perfect. Always Tense
- Then he gave her a kiss on the forehead that felt like a baptism and she wept like a baby. Baby
- Any woman who counts on her face is a fool. Any
- We cannot love something solely because it has been ignored. It must also be worthy of our attention. Attention
- ...They cannot escape their history any more than you yourself can lose your shadow. Any
- Time is how you spend your love. Funny
- (and Catholics give out forgiveness at about the same rate as politicians give out promises and whores give out) Catholic
- The object of the passion is just an accessory to the passion itself. Accessories
- When I write I am trying to express my way of being in the world. This is primarily a process of elimination: once you have… All
- Boys are just boys after all, but sometimes girls really seem to be the turn of a pale wrist, or the sudden jut of a… Across
- They had nothing to say to each other. A five-year age gap between siblings is like a garden that needs constant attention. Even three months… Age
- This, after all, was the month in which families began tightening and closing and sealing; from Thanksgiving to the New Year, everybody's world contracted, day… All
- She represents love, beauty, purity, the ideal female and the moon...and she's the mystère of jealousy, vengeance and discord, AND, on the other hand, of… Beauty
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