Zadie Smith
Zadie Smith
Zadie Smith FRSL is an English novelist, essayist, and short story writer...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth25 October 1975
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.