"There is no bigger crime, in the English……" — Zadie Smith

"There is no bigger crime, in the English comic novel, than thinking you are right."

— 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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