Zadie Smith Want Quotations

As far as I'm concerned, if you want to find out about the last day of WWII or the roots of the Indian Mutiny, get thee to a books catalogue.

You say you want to talk, But you don't . You stonewall me.

This is what divorce is: taking things you no longer want from people you no longer love.

We cannot be all the writers all the time. We can only be who we are. Which leads me to my second point: writers do not write what they want, they write what they can.

Sometimes, one wants to have the illusion that one is making ones own life, out of ones own resources.

(Feedback) People become addicted to it. That’s why journalism is so popular, because you want to hear, every day, what people think of what you just wrote. I think a little patience on that front can be good, too.

She hopes for nothing except fine weather and a resolution. She wants to end properly, like a good sentence.