Tag: Zadie Smith
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I’m most honest about writing when I’m talking to family or friends, not to newspapers.
Zadie Smith
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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
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I don’t keep any copies of my books in the house – they go to my mum’s flat. I don’t like them around.
Zadie Smith
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I’m very attracted to exile literature – particularly Nabokov – exactly because the idea of being away from home for any serious length of time is so inconceivable to me.
Zadie Smith
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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
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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
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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
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Like all readers, I want my limits to be drawn by my own sensibilities, not by my melanin count.
Zadie Smith
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It might be useful to distinguish between pleasure and joy. But maybe everybody does this very easily, all the time, and only I am confused.
Zadie Smith
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I wrote ‘White Teeth’ in the late nineties. I didn’t really feel trepidatious about it. It was a different time.
Zadie Smith