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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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- “I wouldn't write about people who are living and who are close to me, because I think it's a very violent thi…”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
- “I tap danced for ten years before I began to understand people don't make musicals anymore. All I wanted to d…”Zadie Smith
- “I'm never interested in writing a kind of neutral, universal novel that could be set anywhere. To me, the nov…”Zadie Smith
Motherhood: more sayings
- “Two Songs For The World's End I Bombs ripen on the leafless tree under which the children play. And there my…”Judith A. Wright
- “Motherhood has taught me the meaning of living in the moment and being at peace. Children don't think about y…”Jessalyn Gilsig
- “Single motherhood is an amazing thing; it's a blessing.”Kelly Cutrone
Explore Creativity
- “To creative people, the compendium of the white man's dialect are unfashionable, because their creations are…”Michael Bassey Johnson
- “You have to be willing to spend time making things for no known reason.”Lynda Barry
- “Insight is the deep intuitive understanding of things, and it often breaks through the conventional wisdom.”Pearl Zhu
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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