Author: Zadie Smith

Quotes

Without the balancing context of everyday life, all you have is the news, and news by its nature is generally bad.

Without the balancing context of everyday life, all you have is the news, and news by its nature is generally bad.

- Zadie Smith

You can't state difference and also state equality. We have to state sameness to understand equality.

You can't state difference and also state equality. We have to state sameness to understand equality.

- Zadie Smith

When I think of the books I love, there's always a little laughter in the dark.

When I think of the books I love, there's always a little laughter in the dark.

- Zadie Smith

Young people understand the world. They should be listened to on matters of politics and world organization. But they know nothing of their own lives.

Young people understand the world. They should be listened to on matters of politics and world organization. But they know nothing of their own lives.

- Zadie Smith

Protect the time and space in which you write. Keep everybody away from it, even the people who are most important to you.

Protect the time and space in which you write. Keep everybody away from it, even the people who are most important to you.

- Zadie Smith

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

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

- Zadie Smith

I think I know a thing or two about the way people love, but I don't know anything about hatred, psychosis, cruelty. Or maybe I don't have the guts to admit that I do.

I think I know a thing or two about the way people love, but I don't know anything about hatred, psychosis, cruelty. Or maybe I don't have the guts to admit that I do.

- Zadie Smith

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.

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

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