Zadie Smith
Zadie Smith
Zadie Smith FRSL is an English novelist, essayist, and short story writer...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth25 October 1975
land empowering despair
You are never stronger...than when you land on the other side of despair.
library
You're a library of me.
couple vaudeville
Each couple is its own vaudeville act.
pride proud female
I find it impossible to experience either pride or shame over accidents of genetics in which I had no active part. I'm not necessarily proud to be female. I am not even proud to be human—I only love to be so.
live-life action creatures
You must live life with the full knowledge that your actions will remain. We are creatures of consequence.
everyday news everyday-life
Without the balancing context of everyday life, all you have is the news, and news by its nature is generally bad.
men two going-away
When the male organ of a man stands erect, two thirds of his intelect go away. And one third of his religion.
want sometimes illusion
Sometimes, one wants to have the illusion that one is making ones own life, out of ones own resources.
desire finals
Desire is never final, desire is imprecise and impractical [...]
way feels
Don't live in a way that makes you feel dead.
philosophy mean past
She had that thing most people don't have - curiosity. She might not have always got the right answers, but she wanted to ask the questions. It's very hard if you are interested in ideas and all that, ideas and the philosophies of the past, it's very hard to find someone around here to really talk to. That's the tragedy of the thing really I mean, when you think about it. Certainly I can't find anyone around here to talk to anymore. And for a woman it's even harder you see. They can feel very trapped - because of the patriarchy. I do feel everyone needs to have these little chats now and then.
thinking people want
(Feedback) People become addicted to it. That’s why journalism is so popular, because you want to hear, every day, what people think of what you just wrote. I think a little patience on that front can be good, too.
order said difficult
Under every friendship there is a difficult sentence that must be said, in order that the friendship can be survived.
heart mind
He had her in his heart, but not always in his mind.