Zadie Smith Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)
Zadie Smith quotes and sayings page 3 (49 year old novelist). Here's quote # 21 through 30 out of the 92 we have for her.
“I tap danced for ten years before I began to understand people don't make musicals anymore. All I wanted to do was be at MGM working for Arthur Freed or Gene Kelly or Vincent Minelli. Historical and geographical constraints made this impossible. Slowly but surely the pen became mightier than the double pick-up time step with shuffle.”
“People with children will know this: when the childcare is over, it's over on the dot. You immediately have to go into child mode; there's no down time.”
“The roots of rap are originally ghetto-ised or extremely working class. So when you're an artist who's making something which isn't how its mainstream appearance should be, there's always these strange questions of authenticity and what you have to do to be 'real' as a rapper.”
“The idea that motherhood is inherently somehow a threat to creativity is just absurd.”
“I never attended a creative writing class in my life. I have a horror of them; most writers groups moonlight as support groups for the kind of people who think that writing is therapeutic. Writing is the exact opposite of therapy.”
“If you're going to write a good book, you have to make mistakes and you have to not be so cautious all the time.”
“Women often have a great need to portray themselves as sympathetic and pleasing, but we're also dark people with dark thoughts.”
“It's a funny thing about rap, that when you say 'I' into the microphone, it's like a public confession. It's very strange.”
“Nowadays, I know the true reason I read is to feel less alone, to make a connection with a consciousness other than my own.”
“You know, you don't expect everyone to be as educated as everyone else or have the same achievements, but you expect at least to be offered at least some of the opportunities, and libraries are the most simple and the most open way to give people access to books.”
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