Normally, young writers have all the time in the world and they don’t always use it well. Zadie Smith Read Quote
You know, you don’t expect everyone to be as educated as everyone else or have the same achievements, but you expect at least to be offered at least some of the opportunities, and libraries are the most simple and the most open way to give people access to books. Zadie Smith Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
The lack of alternatives to an illegal action does not legitimise that action. Zadie Smith Read Quote
The conflation of the simple in style with the morally prescriptive in character, and the complex in style with the amoral or anarchic in character, seems to me one of the most persistently fallacious beliefs held by English students. Zadie Smith Read Quote
Oh yes, my generation liked to be in some pain when they read. The harder it was, the more good we believed it was doing us. Zadie Smith Read Quote
I just realized quite early on that I’m not going to be the type who can write a novel every two years. I think you need to feel an urgency about the act. Otherwise, when you read it, you feel no urgency, either. So I don’t write unless I really feel I need to, and that’s a luxury. Zadie Smith Read Quote
