Quotes by : Zadie Smith

Under every friendship there is a difficult sentence that must be said, in order that the friendship....

They were real people who entertained and argued and existed entirely independently from him, although....

She wore her sexuality with an older woman's ease, and not like an awkward purse, never knowing how to....

I don’t want your babies, Felix. I can assure you I’m not sitting up here like some tragic fallen....

When I write I am trying to express my way of being in the world. This is primarily a process of elimination:....

Early on, for better or worse, I chose whose child I wanted to be: the child of the novel. Almost everything....

Now, how do the young prepare to meet the old? The same way the old prepare to meet the young: with a....

These days, it feels to me like you make a devil's pact when you walk into this country. You hand over....

Cause nobody's the slightest idea who we are, or who we were, not even we ourselves - except, that is,....

Those are my bougainvillea—I got Victoria to plant them today, but I don;t know if they will survive.....