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About Zadie Smith
English novelist, essayist, and short-story writer
Zadie Smith is an English novelist, essayist, and short-story writer. Her debut novel, White Teeth, appeared in 2000 and quickly became a best-seller, bringing her wide attention. She has 153 quotes on the site. Smith’s first novel also won several awards. In September 2010, she became a tenured professor in the creative writing faculty at New York University.
More from Zadie Smith (153 quotes) →More quotes by Zadie Smith
- “Writing is my way of expressing - and thereby eliminating - all the various ways we can be wrong-headed.”Zadie Smith
- “You know, you don't expect everyone to be as educated as everyone else or have the same achievements, but you…”Zadie Smith
- “The past is always tense, the future perfect.”Zadie Smith
- “Young people understand the world. They should be listened to on matters of politics and world organization.…”Zadie Smith
Consciousness: more sayings
- “Respect everyone who crosses your path, even if you feel they don't deserve it.”Alaric Hutchinson
- “For me as a human being, I do not know any sense in which I could claim that the universe is here in the abse…”Andrei Linde
- “I was making the music and writing the songs which reflected the emerging consciousness of my generation.”Donovan
Loneliness: more sayings
- “Maybe the real issue here is that we were not created to do life by ourselves. We were not given a sentence o…”Stephen Lovegrove
- “Well, my friends give me purple flowers and orange teaand goosedown spinning quilts and torquoise chairswe gr…”Dar Williams
- “All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.”Blaise Pascal
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Books by Zadie Smith
White Teeth
2001
On Beauty
2005
The Autograph Man
2003
Swing Time
2017
Changing my mind
2009