Best Zadie Smith Wisdom
- The library was the place I went to find out what there was to know. It was absolutely essential. Absolutely
- Oh yes, my generation liked to be in some pain when they read. The harder it was, the more good we believed it was doing… Believed
- The conflation of the simple in style with the morally prescriptive in character, and the complex in style with the amoral or anarchic in character,… Amoral
- There is no bigger crime, in the English comic novel, than thinking you are right. Bigger
- The utterly fallacious idea at the heart of the pro-war argument is that it is the duty of the anti-war argument to provide an alternative… Alternative
- We cannot be all the writers all the time. We can only be who we are. All
- If you love a young writer, maybe the best thing you can do is give them a little bit of space. Best
- I suppose I often think of my writing as quite impersonal. But it turned out, when my father died, writing was exactly what I wanted… Died
- I think of reading like a balanced diet; if your sentences are too baggy, too baroque, cut back on fatty Foster Wallace, say, and pick… Baggy
- Like all readers, I want my limits to be drawn by my own sensibilities, not by my melanin count. All
- It might be useful to distinguish between pleasure and joy. But maybe everybody does this very easily, all the time, and only I am confused. All
- A lot of people seem to feel that joy is only the most intense version of pleasure, arrived at by the same road - you… Arrived
- Well-run libraries are filled with people because what a good library offers cannot be easily found elsewhere: an indoor public space in which you do… Buy
- I want to write without shame or pride or over-compensation in one direction or another. To write freely. Compensation
- Nabokov, who I loved more than any other writer when I was young, had such contempt for dialogue. When I was younger, I never wrote… Any
- Working with great writers can be humbling and frightening, but it can also change you for good, forever. Change
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