"I'm most honest about writing when I'm talking……" — Zadie Smith

"I'm most honest about writing when I'm talking to family or friends, not to newspapers."

— Zadie Smith

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191 Quotes by Zadie Smith

Zadie Smith has 191 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

It was in the air, or so it seemed to Kiki, this hatred of women and their bodies- it seeped…
A writer's duty is to register what it is like for him or her to be in the world.
Protect the time and space in which you write. Keep everybody away from it, even the people who are most…
Our children will be born of our actions. Our accidents will become their destinies. Oh, the actions will remain. It…
But it makes an immigrant laugh to hear the fears of the nationalist, scared of infection, penetration, miscegenation, when this…
Most of the cruelty in the world is just misplaced energy.
Don’t romanticise your ‘vocation’. You can either write good sentences or you can’t. There is no ‘writer’s lifestyle’. All that…
Sometimes I think my whole professional life has been based on this hunch I had, early on, that many people…
I remember so clearly, in the early days, if I had to do a piece of press, they'd phone for…
It's gotten to a point where everybody is concerned about their rights and nobody is concerned about their duties.
Work on a computer that is disconnected from the internet.
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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Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own. — Aristotle
He who hath many friends hath none. — Aristotle
Misfortune shows those who are not really friends. — Aristotle
Friendship is essentially a partnership. — Aristotle
A real man loves his wife, and places his family as the most important thing in life. Nothing has brought… — Frank Abagnale
In every song I write, whether it's a love song or a political song or a song about family, the… — Billie Joe Armstrong
I grew up in a working-class family, so I guess you could say I write from what I know. — Andrea Arnold
This airline is grateful for his extensive contributions and we will miss his friendship and support. We extend our deepest… — Gerard Arpey
I grew up playing music and enjoying good food, friends and family in my own backyard. — Rodney Atkins
Little girls are cute and small only to adults. To one another they are not cute. They are life-sized. — Margaret Atwood
If I can procure three hundred good substantial names of persons, or bodies, or institutions, I cannot fail to do… — John James Audubon
How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it. — Marcus Aurelius

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