Zadie Smith
Zadie Smith
Zadie Smith FRSL is an English novelist, essayist, and short story writer...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth25 October 1975
laughing scared peanuts
But it makes an immigrant laugh to hear the fears of the nationalist, scared of infection, penetration, miscegenation, when this is small fry, peanuts, compared to what the immigrant fears - dissolution, disappearance.
jesus children wall
Our children will be born of our actions. Our accidents will become their destinies. Oh, the actions will remain. It is a simple matter of what you will do when the chips are down, my friend. When the fat lady is singing. When the walls are falling in, and the sky is dark, and the ground is rumbling. In that moment our actions will define us. And it makes no difference whether you are being watched by Allah, Jesus, Buddah, or whether you are not. On cold days a man can see his breath, on a hot day he can't. On both occasions, the man breathes.
writing world duty
A writer's duty is to register what it is like for him or her to be in the world.
home air shoes
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 newspapers. There was no way to control it.
crazy people lasts
Revelation is where all crazy people end up. It's the last stop on the nutso express.
girl feels
She did what girls generally do when they don't feel the part: she dressed it instead.
wall looks littles
Step back from your Facebook Wall for a moment: Doesn't it, suddenly, look a little ridiculous? Your life in this format?
creativity motherhood ideas
The idea that motherhood is inherently somehow a threat to creativity is just absurd.
character language individual
Everything shrinks. Individual character. Friendships, Language. Sensibility.
cynical marketing quirky
The world is now multicultural the same way the world is round. It's not a selling point, it's not a 'quirky' feature, it's not a cynical marketing ploy, it's not an artistic statement, it's not even a plot device. It's a fact, like seedless grapes.
children book writing
First rule of writing: When still a child, make sure you read a lot of books. Spend more time doing this than anything else.
dream new-year phones
This, after all, was the month in which families began tightening and closing and sealing; from Thanksgiving to the New Year, everybody's world contracted, day by day, into the microcosmic single festive household, each with its own rituals and obsessions, rules and dreams. You didn't feel you could call people. They didn't feel they could phone you. How does one cry for help from these seasonal prisons?
Time is how you spend your love.
simple editing secret
The secret to editing your work is simple: you need to become its reader instead of its writer.