Zadie Smith
Zadie Smith
Zadie Smith FRSL is an English novelist, essayist, and short story writer...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth25 October 1975
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.
want
You say you want to talk, But you don't . You stonewall me.
lasts firsts would-be
He did not consider if or how or why he loved them. They were just love: they were the first evidence he ever had of love, and they would be the last confirmation of love when everything else fell away.
attention ignored worthy
We cannot love something solely because it has been ignored. It must also be worthy of our attention.
fate narrative tvs
Fate is a quantity very much like TV: an unstoppable narrative, written, produced and directed by somebody else.
blow light air
This because it is never really very cold in England. It is drizzly, and the wind will blow; hail happens, and there is a breed of Tuesday in January in which time creeps and no light comes and the air is full of water and nobody really loves anybody, but still a decent jumper and a waxen jacket lined with wool is sufficient for every weather England's got to give.
football people the-end-of-the-day
Some people--Samad for example--will tell you not to trust people who overuse the phrase "at the end of the day"--football managers, estate agents, salesmen of all kinds--but Archie's never felt that way about it. Prudent use of said phrase never failed to convince him that his interlocutor was getting to the bottom of things, to the fundamentals.