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Tell the truth through whichever veil comes to hand - but tell it. Resign yourself to the lifelong sadness that comes from never being satisfied (Zadie Smith Quotes)
Desperation, weakness, vulnerability - these things will always be exploited. You need to protect the weak, ring-fence them, with something far stronger than empathy (Zadie Smith Quotes)
I lost many literary battles the day I read ‘Their Eyes Were Watching God.’ I had to concede that occasionally aphorisms have their power. I had to give up the idea that Keats had a monopoly on the lyrical (Zadie Smith Quotes)
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 working for Arthur Freed or Gene Kelly or Vincent Minelli. Historical and geographical constraints made this impossible. Slowly but surely the pen became mightier than the double pick-up time step with shuffle (Zadie Smith Quotes)
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 want to express yourself (Zadie Smith Quotes)
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. Sensibility (Zadie Smith Quotes)
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 joined a religious cult and then discovered Foucault. Such is life (Zadie Smith Quotes)
(and Catholics give out forgiveness at about the same rate as politicians give out promises and whores give out) (Zadie Smith Quotes)
13.5 Mrs. Wolfe asks whether Mr. Iqbal expects her Susan to undertake compulsory headstands. 13.6 Mr. Iqbal infers that, considering Susan’s academic performance and weight problems, a headstand regime might be desirable (Zadie Smith Quotes)
No matter what anyone says, suicide takes guts. It’s for heroes and martyrs, truly vainglorious men. Archie was none of these. He was a man whose significance in the Greater Scheme of Things could be figured along familiar ratios: Pebble : Beach Raindrop : Ocean Needle : Haystack (Zadie Smith Quotes)
Step back from your Facebook Wall for a moment: Doesn’t it, suddenly, look a little ridiculous? Your life in this format? (Zadie Smith Quotes)
No fiction, no myths, no lies, no tangled webs - this is how Irie imagined her homeland. Because homeland is one of the magical fantasy words like unicorn and soul and infinity that have now passed into language (Zadie Smith Quotes)
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 (Zadie Smith Quotes)
I love to dance, and sing - in the shower, not in public. I’m too old to go raving, but my fondest memories are of that kind of thing - dancing, with lots of people, outside if possible (Zadie Smith Quotes)
The arena of women’s lives is somewhat more intimate. If a woman goes out with an incredibly attractive man and they break up, that woman is not more attractive to men. It’s completely irrelevant to them. That’s an example of the way women’s minds work (Zadie Smith Quotes)
I can’t add. I don’t understand basic science. Or anything else. But I can read anything. I’ve always been able to, and I’ve always liked to. Even if I didn’t understand it, I liked to (Zadie Smith Quotes)
So there existed fathers who dealt in the present, who didn’t drag ancient history around like a ball and chain. So there were men who were not neck-deep and sinking in the quagmire of the past. (Zadie Smith Quotes)
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 to war. The onus is on them to explain just cause. (Zadie Smith Quotes)
I have an ambition to write a great book, but that’s really a competition with myself. I’ve noticed that a lot of young writers, people in all media, want to be famous but they don’t really want to do anything. I can’t think of anything less worth striving for than fame. (Zadie Smith Quotes)
I’m very attracted to exile literature - particularly Nabokov - exactly because the idea of being away from home for any serious length of time is so inconceivable to me. (Zadie Smith Quotes)
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 up Kafka as roughage. (Zadie Smith Quotes)
I just can’t get used to the idea of being somebody unreal in people’s minds. I can’t live my life like that. And it’s just anathema to being a writer. It’s not healthy. (Zadie Smith Quotes)
There is no bigger crime, in the English comic novel, than thinking you are right (Zadie Smith Quotes)
My life is black and white and mixed. My mother’s a Rastafarian, my dad was a short white guy - it’s not an affectation. It’s also the lives of millions of people throughout the world. (Zadie Smith Quotes)
Unless you consider yourself some sort of human brand, which I don’t, you have to deal with the fact that different people are going to like different aspects of your work. It’s not consistent. I am not consistent. But I feel OK with that. (Zadie Smith Quotes)
Books are not brands. Some people are very willing to see themselves as a brand, but you can’t be a certain type of writer to a certain type of person all the time. It will kill you. (Zadie Smith Quotes)
English fiction was something I loved growing up, and it changed my life - it changed the trajectory of my life. (Zadie Smith Quotes)
Working with great writers can be humbling and frightening, but it can also change you for good, forever. (Zadie Smith Quotes)
My feeling is, having lived in different classes, that people want equality of opportunity... that’s the thing that makes me despair: the idea that people aren’t given equality of opportunity. (Zadie Smith Quotes)
A lot of women, when they’re young, feel they have very good friends, and find later on that friendship is complicated. It’s easy to be friends when everyone’s 18. (Zadie Smith Quotes)