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Zadie Smith Quotes

I think of reading like a balanced diet; if your sentences are too baggy, too baroque, cut back on fatty Foster Wallace, say, and pick up Kafka as roughage.

Zadie Smith

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: british
Birth: October 25, 1975

Topics

Reading Think Diet Back Say Up

I believe that global warming is a myth. And so, therefore, I have no conscience problems at all and I'm going to buy a Suburban next time.

Jerry Falwell

Time Believe Problems I Believe Buy

Wrestling's a form of expression, and it expresses vastness.

John Darnielle

Wrestling Expression Vastness Form

When I was counsel for the Senate Rackets Committee, about 25% of the important leads which our committee developed came from newspapers. This increased my respect for those courageous newspapers which assisted us. It also caused me to look with wonderment at some of the newspapers that did not.

Robert Kennedy

Respect Me Look Important Committee

Some studies suggest that the Arctic Ocean may be ice-free by the end of the century.

Jeff Goodell

Ocean End May Arctic Century Some

My children, who are almost two: watching them develop has made me pay much closer attention to how we become who we are.

Amy Waldman

Children Me Attention Become Pay

When I moved to Los Angeles, I wrote spec screenplays. I was really poor, and I thought I was just gonna do this for a while to make a little money so I could write novels. I thought movies were a second-class art form. I condescended to it - I didn't know enough to know it was really gonna be hard.

Stephen Gaghan

Art Money Thought Enough Know Poor

Neal Stephenson handles exposition better than anybody else. I keep trying to learn his tricks, but every time I duck into his pages, I get lost in the stories all over again and forget that I'm a writer.

Stephen Graham Jones

Time Better Duck Learn Trying Lost

Racism is a part of human nature, and you're not going to eradicate it; all you can do is try to keep it in check.

Ron Stallworth

Nature Racism Human Nature You Try

If you do something every day a little, the end is going to be big.

Miguel Cabrera

Day End You Every Day Little Big

In a poem, the words happen; they just come. I let them. Otherwise, I wouldn't write. To interfere with what is happening is to distort the poem. Just a very small degree of intelligence and supervision is necessary. Very tactful. Any revision later that violates the text as it came, that begins rewriting the words, is fake.

Louis Dudek

Intelligence Words Small Fake Write

I am inspired by Nelson Mandela. I was a volunteer teacher in South Africa during apartheid, where I witnessed his success liberating black South Africans.

Lisa Madigan

Success Teacher I Am Black Africa

Quite a few operas are still being commissioned around the world, although nothing apart from audience popularity can ensure more than a few performances.

Bruce Beresford

World Nothing More Audience Being