Zadie Smith
Zadie Smith
Zadie Smith FRSL is an English novelist, essayist, and short story writer...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth25 October 1975
writing thinking feelings
It's a feeling of happiness that knocks me clean out of adjectives. I think sometimes that the best reason for writing novels is to experience those four and a half hours after you write the final word.
library essentials knows
The library was the place I went to find out what there was to know. It was absolutely essential.
self fake friendly
…maybe the whole Internet will simply become like Facebook: falsely jolly, fake-friendly, self-promoting, slickly disingenuous….” - Zadie Smith
philosophy easy
It's easy to confuse a woman for a philosophy
children age age-and-experience
This is what a woman is: unadorned, after children and work and age, and experience-these are the marks of living.
kissing past
It was a kiss from the past.
suicide beach ocean
No matter what anyone says, suicide takes guts. It's for heroes and martyrs, truly vainglorious men. Archie was none of these. He was a man whose significance in the Greater Scheme of Things could be figured along familiar ratios: Pebble : Beach Raindrop : Ocean Needle : Haystack
divorce people want
This is what divorce is: taking things you no longer want from people you no longer love.
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.
want
You say you want to talk, But you don't . You stonewall me.
girl fall mean
Where I come from," said Archie, "a bloke likes to get to know a girl before he marries her." "Where you come from it is customary to boil vegetables until they fall apart. This does not mean," said Samad tersely, "that it is a good idea.
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.
salt lost boiling
For ridding oneself of faith is like boiling seawater to retrieve the salt--something is gained but something is lost.
land empowering despair
You are never stronger...than when you land on the other side of despair.