Zadie Smith
Zadie Smith
Zadie Smith FRSL is an English novelist, essayist, and short story writer...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth25 October 1975
ecstatic decades
The nineties, ecstatic decade!
expression taste belief
All tastes are expressions of belief.
school fashionable
Make sure the lubricant is unscented. Don't join fashionable 'schools of thought.' Read everything.
love simple years
The golden age of Luncheon Vouchers ended ten yearsago. For ten years Mickey had been saying, "The goldenage of Luncheon Vouchers is over." And that's what Archieloved about O'Connell's. Everything was remembered,nothing was lost. History was never revised orreinterpreted, adapted or whitewashed. It was as solid andas simple as the encrusted egg on the clock.
strong new-york ambition
You don't come to live here unless the delusion of a reality shaped around your own desires isn't a strong aspect of your personality. A reality shaped around your own desires - there is something sociopathic in that ambition.
believe circles people
People don't settle for people. They resolve to be with them. It takes faith. You draw a circle in the sand and agree to stand in it and believe in it.
book roots want
As far as I'm concerned, if you want to find out about the last day of WWII or the roots of the Indian Mutiny, get thee to a books catalogue.
lying cutting convince-us
All novels attempt to cut neural routes through the brain, to convince us that down this road the true future of the novel lies.
writing voice people
Every genuinely literary style, from the high authorial voice to Foster Wallace and his footnotes-within-footnotes, requires the reader to see the world from somewhere in particular, or from many places. So every novelist's literary style is nothing less than an ethical strategy - it's always an attempt to get the reader to care about people who are not the same as he or she is.
differences states sameness
You can't state difference and also state equality. We have to state sameness to understand equality.
fun believe heterosexuality
I cannot believe homosexuality is that much fun. Heterosexuality certainly is not.
army rapper epic
Asking why rappers always talk about their stuff is like asking why Milton is forever listing the attributes of heavenly armies. Because boasting is a formal condition of the epic form. And those taught that they deserve nothing rightly enjoy it when they succeed in terms the culture understands.
moon hands female
She represents love, beauty, purity, the ideal female and the moon...and she's the mystère of jealousy, vengeance and discord, AND, on the other hand, of love, perpetual help, goodwill, health, beauty and fortune.
weather want resolution
She hopes for nothing except fine weather and a resolution. She wants to end properly, like a good sentence.