Favorites Quote's
Author
Topic's
Blog
I Like Books That Expose Me To People Unlike Me And Books That Do Battle Against Caricature Or Simplification. That, To Me, Is The Heroic In Fiction.
-Zadie Smith
Please Wait....
Translating....
Select Image
Download as Image
English
Spanish
French
German
Hindi
Chinese
I Like Books That Expose Me To
Zadie Smith
I Like Books That Expose Me To People Unlike Me And Books That Do Battle Against Caricature Or Simplification. That, To Me, Is The Heroic In Fiction.
Views: 15
Topic
Book
People
Battle
More From Zadie Smith
Most Of The Cruelty In The World Is Just Misplaced Energy.
Energy
World
Cruelty
Every Genuinely Literary Style, From The High Authorial Voice To Foster Wallace And His Footnotes-within-footnotes, Requires The Reader To See The World From Somewhere In Particular, Or From Many Places. So Every Novelist's Literary Style Is Nothing Less Than An Ethical Strategy - It's Always An Attempt To Get The Reader To Care About People Who Are Not The Same As He Or She Is.
Writing
Voice
People
It's Gotten To A Point Where Everybody Is Concerned About Their Rights And Nobody Is Concerned About Their Duties.
Rights
Duty
Concerned
I'm A Writer Who Never Writes About Sex. It's So Far From My Own Fictional World.
Sex
Writing
World
150 Years Ago In [charles] Dickens's Time There Was At Least A Sense Of Craft. So Some Of The Things People Had Inside Of Them, They Had The Possibility Of Expressing In The Making Of Things - Even In A Daily Way With Their Clothes Or Their Food. People Made A Good Deal Of Both Themselves. Now Our Daily Lives Are Almost All Consumption. Craft Plays A Tiny Role.
Clothes
Years
Play
Trending Author
Arthur Eddington
Abba Eban
Bob Richards
Katharine Graham
Errico Malatesta
Epictetus
Category
Information