zadie smith

“ I am very selfish, really. I lived for love. ”

“ Greeting cards routinely tell us everybody deserves love. No. Everybody deserves clean water. Not everybody deserves love all the time. ”

“ Work on a computer that is disconnected from the ”

“ When people use that stream of consciousness, it's kind of just a term they use for anything that looks slightly different on the page. ”

“ The greatest lie ever told about love is that it sets you free. ”

“ You must live life with the full knowledge that your actions will remain. We are creatures of consequence. ”

“ Protect the time and space in which you write. Keep everybody away from it, even the people who are most important to you. ”

“ The past is always tense, the future perfect. ”

“ The greater the skill, the greater the gift that you give the artist and that the artist gives you. That's the incredibly unfashionable idea of reading. And yet when you practice reading, and you work at a text, it can only give you what you put into it. ”

“ ...the wicked lie, that the past is always tense and the future, perfect. ”