Zadie Quotes
Collection of top 100 famous quotes about Zadie
Zadie Quotes & Sayings
Happy to read and share the best inspirational Zadie quotes, sayings and quotations on Wise Famous Quotes.
I wrote 'White Teeth' in the late nineties. I didn't really feel trepidatious about it. It was a different time.
— Zadie Smith
Well, you can't make old friends.
— Zadie Smith
It was a tough decision.' Mickey crosses his arms and scoffs, 'No such thing, mate. You're either right or you ain't. And
— Zadie Smith
Yes, sometimes it's the strangers that sustain you.
— Zadie Smith
Cambridge was a joy. Tediously. People reading books in a posh place. It was my fantasy. I loved it. I miss it still.
— Zadie Smith
It was a kiss from the past.
— Zadie Smith
Full stories are as rare as honesty.
— Zadie Smith
Nobody can cast themselves out.
— Zadie Smith
Each couple is its own vaudeville act.
— Zadie Smith
Working with great writers can be humbling and frightening, but it can also change you for good, forever.
— Zadie Smith
That kind of inability to improve is really very rare. That kind of consistency is miraculous, in a way.
— Zadie Smith
She hopes for nothing except fine weather and a resolution. She wants to end properly, like a good sentence.
— Zadie Smith
She could never simply sit somewhere and let time pass, she had to be learning something.
— Zadie Smith
Normally, young writers have all the time in the world and they don't always use it well.
— Zadie Smith
When the male organ of a man stands erect, two thirds of his intelect go away. And one third of his religion.
— Zadie Smith
Ryan is indispensable. There
— Zadie Smith
How long that song seemed - longer than life.
— Zadie Smith
Much of the excitement of a new novel lies in the repudiation of the one written before.
— Zadie Smith
I am very selfish, really. I lived for love.
— Zadie Smith
To look back at all past work induces nausea [...] It's like taking a tour of a cell in which you were once incarcerated.
— Zadie Smith
Make sure the lubricant is unscented. Don't join fashionable 'schools of thought.' Read everything.
— Zadie Smith
![Zadie Quotes By Zadie Smith: [he] had become the bloke in the joke:](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/zadie-quotes-by-zadie-smith-12726.jpg "Zadie Quotes By Zadie Smith: [he] had become the bloke in the joke:")
Nostalgia is a luxury.
— Zadie Smith
You're next. It's the next thing. Next stop Kilburn Station. The doors fold inwards, urban insect closing its wings.
— Zadie Smith
He traced the genealogy of the feeling.
— Zadie Smith
The shit is not the shit, the pigeon is the shit.
— Zadie Smith
Step back from your Facebook Wall for a moment: Doesn't it, suddenly, look a little ridiculous? Your life in this format?
— Zadie Smith
When all the time it was that grand tree, taking up half the garden with its roots and not allowing anything else to grow.
— Zadie Smith
Don't confuse honours with achievement.
— Zadie Smith
Getting anything out of my husband is like trying to squeeze water out when you're stoned.
— Zadie Smith
Rarely does one see a squirrel tremble.
— Zadie Smith
Fate is a quantity very much like TV: an unstoppable narrative, written, produced and directed by somebody else.
— Zadie Smith
The library was the place I went to find out what there was to know. It was absolutely essential.
— Zadie Smith
We did not desire or dread the boys in themselves, we only desired and dreaded being wanted or not being wanted.
— Zadie Smith
You want to believe there are limits to what money can make happen, lines it can't cross.
— Zadie Smith
Nine SPEAKING IN TONGUES The following is based on a lecture given at the New York Public Library in December 2008. 1
— Zadie Smith
![Zadie Quotes By Zadie Smith: [...] our memories are getting more beautiful and](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/zadie-quotes-by-zadie-smith-542814.jpg "Zadie Quotes By Zadie Smith: [...] our memories are getting more beautiful and")
Sacrifice was nine tenths of parenting.
— Zadie Smith
I couldn't afford to be offended.
— Zadie Smith
They were touched by the same inheritance.
— Zadie Smith
Then he gave her a kiss on the forehead that felt like a baptism and she wept like a baby.
— Zadie Smith
![Zadie Quotes By Zadie Smith: Fewer American flags [in Brooklyn] than in Florida](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/zadie-quotes-by-zadie-smith-191421.jpg "Zadie Quotes By Zadie Smith: Fewer American flags [in Brooklyn] than in Florida")
I don't keep any copies of my books in the house - they go to my mum's flat. I don't like them around.
— Zadie Smith
That girl,' tutted Alsana as her front door slammed, 'swallowed an encyclopedia and a gutter at the same time.
— Zadie Smith
Writing is my way of expressing - and thereby eliminating - all the various ways we can be wrong-headed.
— Zadie Smith
It's easy to confuse a woman for a philosophy
— Zadie Smith
I wanted to love and to be loved.
— Zadie Smith
It was a competition in agony. Like rich women in posh restaurants ordering ever-smaller salads.
— Zadie Smith
You can feel bad... I mean, that's not illegal.
— Zadie Smith
I was fourteen: the world was pain.
— Zadie Smith
The planet is finished with us, at this point -
— Zadie Smith
Under every friendship there is a difficult sentence that must be said, in order that the friendship can be survived.
— Zadie Smith
It's still easier to find the correct Hoover bag than to find one pure person, one pure faith, on the globe.
— Zadie Smith
Faith is hard to achieve, easy to lose.
— Zadie Smith
You must live life with the full knowledge that your actions will remain. We are creatures of consequence.
— Zadie Smith
It hurts to look at what you can't have
— Zadie Smith
Cos if it's encyclopedias we've got enough, like, information ... and if it's God, you've got the wrong house.
— Zadie Smith
There are so many different ways to be poor,
— Zadie Smith
