She hopes for nothing except fine weather and a resolution. She wants to end properly, like a good sentence.
~ Zadie Smith
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@fujifilmxindiaThe greatest lie ever told about love is that it sets you free.
~ Zadie Smith
She wore her sexuality with an older woman’s ease, and not like an awkward purse, never knowing how to hold it, where to hang it, or when to just put it down.
~ Zadie Smith
She did what girls generally do when they don’t feel the part: she dressed it instead.
~ Zadie Smith
It’s easy to confuse a woman for a philosophy.
~ Zadie Smith
Nowadays I know the true reason I read is to feel less alone, to make a connection with a consciousness other than my own.
~ Zadie Smith
He was bookish, she was not; he was theoretical, she political. She called a rose a rose. He called it an accumulation of cultural and biological constructions circulating around the mutually attracting binary poles of nature/artifice.
~ Zadie Smith
The greater the skill, the greater the gift that you give the artist and that the artist gives you. That’s the incredibly unfashionable idea of reading. And yet when you practice reading, and you work at a text, it can only give you what you put into it. It’s an old moral, but it’s completely true.
~ Zadie Smith
I am the sole author of the dictionary that defines me.
~ Zadie Smith
Sometimes you get a flash of what you look like to other people
~ Zadie Smith
There was an inevitability about the road towards each other which encouraged meandering along the route.
~ Zadie Smith
She measured time in pages. Half an hour, to her, meant ten pages read, or fourteen, depending on the size of the type, and when you think of time in this way there isn’t time for anything else.
~ Zadie Smith
The very reason I write is so that I might not sleepwalk through my entire life.
~ Zadie Smith
Any woman who counts on her face is a fool.
~ Zadie Smith