Zadie Smith Quotes & Sayings (Page 8)
Zadie Smith quotes and sayings page 8 (49 year old novelist). Here's quote # 71 through 80 out of the 92 we have for her.
“I noticed in America that if you write a book of any kind, you're made to be the representative of all the issues that might surround it.”
“I suppose I often think of my writing as quite impersonal. But it turned out, when my father died, writing was exactly what I wanted to do.”
“I want to write without shame or pride or over-compensation in one direction or another. To write freely.”
“I wrote 'White Teeth' in the late nineties. I didn't really feel trepidatious about it. It was a different time.”
“I'm most honest about writing when I'm talking to family or friends, not to newspapers.”
“Like all readers, I want my limits to be drawn by my own sensibilities, not by my melanin count.”
“Oh yes, my generation liked to be in some pain when they read. The harder it was, the more good we believed it was doing us.”
“Protect the time and space in which you write. Keep everybody away from it, even the people who are most important to you.”
“The lack of alternatives to an illegal action does not legitimise that action.”
“There is no bigger crime, in the English comic novel, than thinking you are right.”
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