Zadie Smith Quotes

And it's just anathema to being a writer. It's not healthy. But in another way, when I'm writing, what it's about for me is being good on the page. None of that noise could change the way I feel about my writing. Which is not always particularly positive.

Zadie Smith

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• My folks were drunks, and I had a rough childhood - really rough - in fact, rougher than I thought about.

  

  Gary Paulsen
  • Thought
  • Childhood
  • Fact

• I was always interested in the kind of history they didn't teach you in school.

  

  Sally Watson
  • School
  • History
  • Teach

• I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Man
  • Desire
  • Never

• I don't write under the ghost of Faulkner. I live in the same town and find his life and work inspiring, but that's it. I have a motorcycle and tool along the country lanes. I travel at my own speed.

  

  Barry Hannah
  • Life
  • Work
  • Live

• Women are not all single-issue voters.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Women
  • Single
  • Voters

• The society Shakespeare knew was heading for tremendous change, and he seems to have recognized that and written about it in a coded way. I understand those codes, I think.

  

  Vanessa Redgrave
  • Think
  • Society
  • Change

• Your barber always knows everything that goes on in the town, doesn't he?

  

  Adam Peaty
  • Always
  • Everything
  • Barber

• Honestly, I'd love to say I live this amazing Hollywood lifestyle, but actually, I'm at home with my same friends and cooking. I crochet, I do watercolor. I think what surprised me the most is that that isn't the lifestyle everyone necessarily lives.

  

  Yael Grobglas
  • Live
  • Love
  • Home

• I'm a mother of a three-year-old, but when I started 'California,' my son wasn't even a twinkle in my eye. Because the book took as long as it did, I wrote it before I was pregnant, while I was pregnant, and as a new mother - so I enjoyed a diversity of experiences while creating this world.

  

  Edan Lepucki
  • World
  • Long
  • Book

• I like Noah from 'The Notebook.' One - hundred percent. I fall in love with him so hard.

  

  Camila Cabello Fifth Harmony
  • Fall
  • Like
  • Hard

• People hate cardio. I hate cardio. But pick the five top songs that you love. Do your cardio during these songs, and you're done. I'd say 95 percent of the time you don't even know you just did it.

  

  Taylor Kitsch
  • People
  • Time
  • Know

• I often have the impression that the book I've just finished isn't satisfied: that it rejects me because I haven't successfully completed it. Because there is no going back, I'm forced to begin a new book so I can finally complete the previous one.

  

  Patrick Modiano
  • Book
  • Me
  • New

• I go to wherever God calls me, wherever the church calls me to come to minister and preach the word of God.

  

  Vanity
  • God
  • Church
  • Word

• We do not need to proselytise either by our speech or by our writing. We can only do so really with our lives. Let our lives be open books for all to study.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Writing
  • Study
  • Speech

• I want to be a mayor who helped, really helped.

  

  Harold Washington
  • Want
  • Really
  • Mayor

• I am just an actor, but there are these other people who are really selfless. I come from a long line of nurses in my family, and they really do a thankless job.

  

  Sam Jaeger
  • Family
  • Job
  • Actor

• To be safe at the expense of the liberty of other people is a difficult equation.

  

  Madeleine Albright
  • People
  • Difficult
  • Liberty

• What you wear onstage is a reflection of your artistry.

  

  Sabrina Carpenter
  • You
  • Reflection
  • Artistry

• Peace is an awareness of reserves from beyond ourselves, so that our power is not so much in us as through us. Peace is the gift, not of volitional struggle, but of spiritual hospitality.

  

  Harry Emerson Fosdick
  • Peace
  • Gift
  • Reserves

• First and foremost, praying about things and having the good Lord as a part of my life is a huge grounding thing for me.

  

  Ashton Shepherd
  • Life
  • Good

• 'Don’t worry,' he told her.'Me?' she said. 'I never worry. It’s all going to end badly whether I worry or not.'

  

  Clive Barker
  • She
  • Worry

• There is something bigger than fact: the underlying spirit, all it stands for, the mood, the vastness, the wildness.

  

  Emily Carr
  • Mood

• And it's just anathema to being a writer. It's not healthy. But in another way, when I'm writing, what it's about for me is being good on the page. None of that noise could change the way I feel about my writing. Which is not always particularly positive.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Good
  • Writing
  • Positive