Zadie Smith
Zadie Smith
Zadie Smith FRSL is an English novelist, essayist, and short story writer...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth25 October 1975
feelings genealogy
He traced the genealogy of the feeling.
sleep were-meant-to-be reader
The ideal reader cannot sleep when holding the writer he was meant to be with.
kissing past
It was a kiss from the past.
brother waiting feelings
But sometimes it's like you just meet someone and you just know that you're totally connected, and this person is, like, your brother - or your sister. Even if they don't, like, recognize it, you feel it. And in a lot of ways it don't matter if they do or they don't see that for what it is - all you can do is put the feeling out there. That's your duty. Then you just wait and see what comes back to you. That's the deal.
baby broken half
Oh, I know that. You know me, baby, I cannot be broken. Takes a giant to snap me in half.
salt lost boiling
For ridding oneself of faith is like boiling seawater to retrieve the salt--something is gained but something is lost.
not-sure persons ifs
I'm not sure if you're the person for me any more.
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.
people littles sun
In a whisper he began begging for—and, as the sun set, received—the concession people always beg for: a little more time.
self fake friendly
…maybe the whole Internet will simply become like Facebook: falsely jolly, fake-friendly, self-promoting, slickly disingenuous….” - Zadie Smith
library essentials knows
The library was the place I went to find out what there was to know. It was absolutely essential.
real insightful stories
You become a different writer when you approach a short story. When things are not always having to represent other things, you find real human beings begin to cautiously appear on your pages.
sound like-me carver
I read Carver. Julio Cortazar. Amis's essays. Baldwin. Lorrie Moore. Capote. Saramago. Larkin. Wodehouse. Anything, anything at all, that doesn't sound like me.
shadow white-teeth loses
...They cannot escape their history any more than you yourself can lose your shadow.