"Every genuinely literary style, from the high authorial……" — Zadie Smith
"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 particular, or from many places. So every novelist's literary style is nothing less than an ethical strategy - it's always an attempt to get the reader to care about people who are not the same as he or she is."
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191 Quotes by Zadie Smith
Zadie Smith has 191 quotes on this site.
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It was in the air, or so it seemed to Kiki, this hatred of women and their bodies- it seeped…
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A writer's duty is to register what it is like for him or her to be in the world.
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Protect the time and space in which you write. Keep everybody away from it, even the people who are most…
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Our children will be born of our actions. Our accidents will become their destinies. Oh, the actions will remain. It…
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But it makes an immigrant laugh to hear the fears of the nationalist, scared of infection, penetration, miscegenation, when this…
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Most of the cruelty in the world is just misplaced energy.
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Don’t romanticise your ‘vocation’. You can either write good sentences or you can’t. There is no ‘writer’s lifestyle’. All that…
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Sometimes I think my whole professional life has been based on this hunch I had, early on, that many people…
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I remember so clearly, in the early days, if I had to do a piece of press, they'd phone for…
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It's gotten to a point where everybody is concerned about their rights and nobody is concerned about their duties.
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Work on a computer that is disconnected from the internet.
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I have an ambition to write a great book, but that's really a competition with myself. I've noticed that a…
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More Attempt Quotes
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Fashion is only the attempt to realize art in living forms and social intercourse.
— Francis Bacon
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I don't watch the movies I make, so I haven't seen 'Footloose' since it came out. You see this young,…
— Kevin Bacon
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I will always find even the worst paintings that attempt some kind of representation better than the best invented paintings.
— Balthus
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Events that are predestined require but little management. They manage themselves. They slip into place while we sleep, and suddenly…
— Amelia Barr
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The administration's attempt to keep us from selling agricultural products to Cuba is an outrage. Cuba is not a threat.…
— Max Baucus
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Art is an attempt to integrate evil.
— Simone de Beauvoir
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I find a lot of things kind of funny and I often say what's on my mind, and then get…
— Kate Beckinsale
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A drawing is an autobiographical record of one's discovery of an event - either seen, remembered or imagined. A 'finished'…
— John Berger
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Every therapeutic cure, and still more, any awkward attempt to show the patient the truth, tears him from the cradle…
— Alfred Adler
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If conservationists will attempt to resume responsibility for their need to eat, they will be led back fairly directly to…
— Wendell Berry
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Dialectic thought is an attempt to break through the coercion of logic by its own means.
— Theodor Adorno
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Whatever you may think of the proposed mosque and community center, lost in the heat of the debate has been…
— Michael Bloomberg
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