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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.
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- “My short stories have always pushed twenty pages. That's no length for a short story to be. You either do the…”Zadie Smith
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- “More silence; children's silence, so desperately desired by adults yet eerie when it finally occurs.”Zadie Smith
- “Some of us are happy with our African hair, thank you very much. I don't want some poor Indian girl's hair. A…”Zadie Smith
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- “No amount of money can replace the kind of happiness and satisfaction I derive out of writing.”Sreenivasan
- “So, whenever I'm writing, I'm writing in the presence of all the other books I've read and I think we all are.”Justin Cronin
- “If a lecturer, he wishes to be heard; if a writer, to be read. He always hopes for a public beyond that of th…”Samuel E. Morison
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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