Good writing shouldn’t be wrapped in cellophane. It should be open to the elements and full of maggots and it should be left to grow and deepen and fester. Zawe Ashton Read Quote
I’ve never lived in north or west London, so I’d like to come out of my comfort zone for a bit. But Stoke Newington is where my heart is, it’s where I’m born and bred. Zawe Ashton Read Quote
When you work in film sets, when you’re working on projects that are male dominated, you are always treated as the last priority. Zawe Ashton Read Quote
I actually grew up around the corner from where Harold Pinter did. If you want a snapshot of my childhood, me and Pinter, we essentially grew up together. Zawe Ashton Read Quote
If there’s one person I looked up to obsessively, it was Will Smith. There wasn’t anyone who looked like me on TV in England. ‘The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air’ was my touchstone. Zawe Ashton Read Quote
I’m Hackney born and bred and find it hard to call anywhere else home despite the extreme ongoing gentrification which gets me down. Zawe Ashton Read Quote
