(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.
Zadie SmithTags: writing criticism literary-reviews
The term 'role model' is so odious, but the truth is it's a very strong writer indeed who gets by without a model kept somewhere in mind. I think of Keats. Keats slogging away, devouring books, plagiarizing, impersonating, adapting, struggling, growing, writing many poems that made him blush and then a few that made him proud, learning everything he could from whomever he could find, dead or alive, who might have something useful to teach him.
Zadie SmithI think Seneca is right: life feels longer the more you engage with it.... I should be loving sculpture! But I have not gone deeply into sculpture. Instead, having been utterly insensitive to sculpture, I fill the time that might have been usefully devoted to sculpture with things like drinking and staring into space.
Zadie SmithTags: life time sculpture seneca engaging
I have known many true connoisseurs, with excellent tastes that range across the humanities and the culinary arts--and they never fail to have a fatal effect on my self-esteem. When I find myself sitting at dinner next to someone who knows just as much about novels as I do but has somehow also found the mental space to adore and be knowledgeable about the opera, have strong opinions about the relative rankings of Renaissance painters, an encyclopedic knowledge of the English civil war, of French wines--I feel an anxiety that nudges beyond the envious into the existential. How did she find the time?
Zadie SmithTags: knowledge self-esteem envy anxiety connoisseurs
Early on, for better or worse, I chose whose child I wanted to be: the child of the novel. Almost everything else was subjugated to this ruling passion, reading stories. As a consequence, I can barely add a column of double digits, I have not the slightest idea of how a plane flies, I can't draw any better than a five-year-old.
Zadie SmithTags: reading passion stories novels skills
You never know, until it happens, what you will owe the dead.
Zadie SmithUnder every friendship there is a difficult sentence that must be said, in order that the friendship can be survived.
Zadie SmithTags: words friendship friends
I am the sole author of the dictionary that defines me.
Zadie SmithTags: identity
في بنات الجيل الجديد، هل ما زلن يردن أن يكن مرغوبات بهذه الشدة؟
هل ما زلن يجوعن أنفسهن، وما زلن يقرأن المجلات النسائية التي تكره النساء بمنتهي الوضوح، وما زلن يقطعن أنفسهن بسكاكين صغيرة في أماكن بعيدة عن العيون المُتَرَقِبة، وما زلن يُزَيفن شعورهن بالوصول إلي الأورجازم مع رجال يكرهن، وما زلن يكذبن علي الجميع عن كل شئ؟
Archie says -Science- the same way he says -Modern-, as if someone has lent him the words and made him swear not to break them.
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