Zadie Smith Quotes About Language

Quotes about: Language

• When a human being becomes a set of data on a website like Facebook, he or she is reduced. Everything shrinks. Individual character. Friendships. Language. Sensibility.

  Zadie Smith

  Character, Data, Language

  "Generation Why?" by Zadie Smith, www.nybooks.com. November 25, 2010.

• When I write I am trying to express my way of being in the world. This is primarily a process of elimination: once you have removed all the dead language, the second-hand dogma, the truths that are not your own but other people's, the mottos, the slogans, the out-and-out lies of your nation, the myths of your historical moment - once you have removed all that warps experience into a shape you do not recognise and do not believe in - what you are left with is something approximating the truth of your own conception.

  Zadie Smith

  Lying, Believe, Writing

• No fiction, no myths, no lies, no tangled webs - this is how Irie imagined her homeland. Because homeland is one of the magical fantasy words like unicorn and soul and infinity that have now passed into language.

  Zadie Smith

  Lying, Tangled, Soul

  Zadie Smith (2001). “White Teeth”, p.408, Penguin UK

• Everything shrinks. Individual character. Friendships. Language. Sensibility.

  Zadie Smith

  Character, Language, Individual

  "Generation Why?" by Zadie Smith, www.nybooks.com. November 25, 2010.

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