606 Quotes by Zadie Smith

Learning how to be a good reader is what makes you a writer.

Don’t romanticise your ‘vocation’. You can either write good sentences or you can’t. There is no ‘writer’s lifestyle’. All that matters is what you leave on the page.

Work on a computer that is disconnected from the ­internet.

The idea that motherhood is inherently somehow a threat to creativity is just absurd.

The end is simply the beginning of an even longer story.

If you're going to write a good book, you have to make mistakes and you have to not be so cautious all the time.

The secret to editing your work is simple: you need to become its reader instead of its writer.

Women often have a great need to portray themselves as sympathetic and pleasing, but we're also dark people with dark thoughts.

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.