Zadie Smith

"Writing is my way of expressing – and thereby eliminating – all the various ways we can be wrong-headed."

- Zadie Smith

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

- Zadie Smith

"Every moment happens twice: inside and outside, and they are two different histories."

- Zadie Smith

"Desperation, weakness, vulnerability - these things will always be exploited. You need to protect the weak, ring-fence them, with something far stronger than empathy."

- Zadie Smith