Working with great writers can be humbling and frightening, but it can also change you for good, forever. Zadie Smith Read Quote
If you asked me if I wanted more joyful experiences in my life, I wouldn’t be at all sure I did, exactly because it proves such a difficult emotion to manage. Zadie Smith Read Quote
English fiction was something I loved growing up, and it changed my life – it changed the trajectory of my life. Zadie Smith Read Quote
I don’t take notes. I don’t have any notebooks. I keep on trying to do that because it seems like a very writerly thing to do, but my mind doesn’t work that way. I tend to get the idea for a novel in a big splash. Zadie Smith Read Quote
I noticed in America that if you write a book of any kind, you’re made to be the representative of all the issues that might surround it. Zadie Smith Read Quote
There is a kind of desperate need for somebody to tell everyone what to do, which I find really peculiar in America. And then when you tell them, they’re not interested, because it’s also a country where everybody’s opinion is their opinion, and they really don’t give a damn what you think. So it’s a very odd experience. Zadie Smith Read Quote
I wrote ‘White Teeth’ in the late nineties. I didn’t really feel trepidatious about it. It was a different time. Zadie Smith Read Quote
Without the balancing context of everyday life, all you have is the news, and news by its nature is generally bad. Zadie Smith Read Quote
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 Read Quote
Can’t a rapper insist, like other artists, on a fictional reality, in which he is somehow still on the corner, despite occupying the penthouse suite? Zadie Smith Read Quote
