Zadie Smith Quotes About Lying

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

  Zadie Smith

  Love, Lying, African American

  Zadie Smith (2006). “On Beauty”, p.463, Penguin UK

• 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

  Mentir, Creer, Escribir

• But surely to tell these tall tales and others like them would be to spread the myth, the wicked lie, that the past is always tense and the future, perfect.

  Zadie Smith

  Lying, Past, Perfect

  Zadie Smith (2000). “White teeth”

• Then you begin to give up the very idea of belonging. Suddenly this thing, this belonging,it seems like some long, dirty lie ... and I begin to believe that birthplaces are accidents, that everything is an accident. But if you believe that, where do you go? What do you do? What does anything matter?

  Zadie Smith

  Renunciar, Mentir, Creer

  Zadie Smith (2000). “White Teeth: A Novel”, Random House Incorporated

• Other people’s words are so important. And then without warning they stop being important, along with all those words of yours that their words prompted you to write. Much of the excitement of a new novel lies in the repudiation of the one written before. Other people’s words are the bridge you use to cross from where you were to wherever you’re going.

  Zadie Smith

  Lying, Writing, Bridges

  "Changing My Mind: Occasional Essays". Book by Zadie Smith, 2009.

• All novels attempt to cut neural routes through the brain, to convince us that down this road the true future of the novel lies.

  Zadie Smith

  Lying, Cutting, Convince Us

• Sin ficción, sin mitos, sin mentiras, sin telarañas enredadas: así imaginaba Irie su patria. Porque patria es una de esas palabras mágicas y fantásticas que, como unicornio, alma o infinito, han pasado al lenguaje.

  Zadie Smith

  Lying, Tangled, Soul

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

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