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Quote of the Day Fresh quotes Topics Authors I'm Feeling Lucky Disable ads! 93 quotes by Zadie Smith Zadie Smith Smith announcing the 2010 National Book Critics Circle award finalists in fiction. Born Sadie Smith (1975-10-25) 25 October 1975 (age 39) Brent, London, England Occupation Novelist, professor of creative writing Nationality British Alma mater King's College, Cambridge Period 2000–present Literary movement Realism, postmodernism, hysterical realism Zadie Smith's voice Sorry, your browser either has JavaScript disabled or... Read full biography of Zadie Smith → 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Ctrl → You can't state difference and also state equality. We have to state sameness to understand equality. 0 In my situation, every time I write a sentence, I'm thinking not only of the people I ended up in college with but my siblings, my family, my... → 0 Asking why rappers always talk about their stuff is like asking why Milton is forever listing the attributes of heavenly armies. Because boasting is... → 0 The library was the place I went to find out what there was to know. It was absolutely essential. 0 The roots of rap are originally ghetto-ised or extremely working class. So when you're an artist who's making something which isn't how... → 0 Tell the truth through whichever veil comes to hand - but tell it. Resign yourself to the lifelong sadness that comes from never being satisfied. 0 I like books that expose me to people unlike me and books that do battle against caricature or simplification. That, to me, is the heroic in fiction. 0 I recognize myself to be an intensely naive person. Most novelists are, despite frequent pretensions to deep socio-political insight. 0 I'm never interested in writing a kind of neutral, universal novel that could be set anywhere. To me, the novel is a local thing. 0 It might be useful to distinguish between pleasure and joy. But maybe everybody does this very easily, all the time, and only I am confused. 0 Desperation, weakness, vulnerability - these things will always be exploited. You need to protect the weak, ring-fence them, with something far... → 0 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... → 0 I'm very attracted to exile literature - particularly Nabokov - exactly because the idea of being away from home for any serious length of time... → 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Ctrl → Add a quote!


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