Zadie Smith Quotes

I don’t see anything ingenious about poverty like this. I don’t see anything ingenious about having ten children when you can’t afford one.Fern put his glasses back on and smiled at me sadly.Children...

I felt a wonderful lightness in my body, a ridiculous happiness, it seemed to come from nowhere.

I fill the time that might have been usefully devoted to sculpture with things like drinking and staring into space.

I thought of that William Gibson quote: The future is already here—it’s just not evenly distributed yet.

I will admit that in the past, when I have met connoisseurs, I’ve found it a bit hard to believe in them entirely. Philistinism often comes with a side order of distrust. How can this person possibly...

I'd decided to establish a new rule for myself: read for half an hour an evening, no matter what.

If novelists know anything it's that individual citizens are internally plural: they have within them the full range of behavioral possibilities. They are like complex musical scores from which certai...

If she was more curt with her own family than a homeless man this only suggested that generosity was not an infinite quantity and had to be employed strategically where it was most needed.

In 1822 freed American slaves (known as Americo-Liberians, or, colloquially, Congos) founded the colony at the instigation of the American Colonization Society, a coalition of slave owners and politic...

In America we are perhaps more accustomed to art that enacts the boredom of life with a side order of that (by now) overfamiliar Warholian nihilism.

In my conscious life, though, I cannot honestly say I feel proud to be white and ashamed to be black or proud to be black and ashamed to be white. I find it impossible to experience either pride or sh...

In short, it was precisely the kind of friendship an Englishman makes on holiday, that he can make only on holiday. A friendship that crosses class and colour, a friendship that takes as its basis phy...

It had to do with emotion. Whatever I was feeling I was able to express very clearly, I could put it over.

It looks backward, at the past, and it learns from what’s gone before. Some people never learn. My

It takes a lot of practice to ensure that a whole bottle of Cabernet and a pint of beer makes only a slight dent in your sobriety, but Howard felt he had reached this stage of accomplishment.

It was a tough decision.’ Mickey crosses his arms and scoffs, ‘No such thing, mate. You’re either right or you ain’t. And

It was during this time that Archie learned the true power of do-it-yourself, how it uses a hammer and nails to replace nouns and adjectives, how it allows men to communicate. A lesson he kept with hi...

It was during this time that Archie learnt the true power of do-it-yourself, how it uses a hammer and nails to replace nouns and adjectives, how it allows men to communicate. A lesson he kept with him...

It was his fourth trip to the attic in so many days, ferrying out the odds and ends of a marriage to his new flat, and the Hoover was amongst the very last items he reclaimed – one of the most broken...

It was in the air, or so it seemed to Kiki, this hatred of women and their bodies – it seeped in with every draught in the house; people brought it home on their shoes, they breathed it in off their n...