There is no bigger crime, in the English comic novel, than thinking you are right. Zadie Smith Read Quote
Some people like just sitting down and being taken for a ride. That’s a beautiful thing that fiction can do. But it’s not the only thing. In television and film, people are ready to accept any kind of jump cut, but the slightest disturbance on the page ruffles their feathers. Zadie Smith Read Quote
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 Read Quote
People with children will know this: when the childcare is over, it’s over on the dot. You immediately have to go into child mode; there’s no down time. Zadie Smith Read Quote
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 Read Quote
Writing is my way of expressing – and thereby eliminating – all the various ways we can be wrong-headed. Zadie Smith Read Quote
Your mid-thirties is a good time because you know a fair amount, you have some self-control. Zadie Smith Read Quote
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 Read Quote
All novels attempt to cut neural routes through the brain, to convince us that down this road the true future of the novel lies. Zadie Smith Read Quote
