1. Zadie Smith
Zadie Smith is an English novelist. To date she has written three novels. In 2003, she was included on Granta's list of 20 best young authors.Zadie Smith was born Sadie Smith in the northwest London borough of Brent a largely working-class area more..

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#Love

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Zadie Smith:Revelation is where all crazy people end up. It's the last stop on the nutso express. #Arts and Artists

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Zadie Smith:But why do they always have to be laughing and making a song-and-dance about everything? I cannot believe homosexuality is that much fun. Heterosexuality certainly is not. #Men

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Zadie Smith:... and catholics give out forgiveness at the same time politicians give out promises and whores give out. #Politicians and Politics

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#Children

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Zadie Smith:Is there anything more likely to take the shine off an affair that when the lover strikes up a convivial relationship with the lovee's mother. #Love

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Zadie Smith:He talked and talked, the kind of talking you do to stave off the inevitable physical desire. The kind of talk that only increases it. #Colleges and Universities

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Zadie Smith:The more blessed she felt on earth, the more rarely she turned to heaven. #Heaven

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Zadie Smith:His mind was a small thing with big holes through which passions regularly seeped out. #Marriage

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#Ancestry

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Zadie Smith:..and the devil won another easy hand in God's poker game. #Gambling

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Zadie Smith:... dressed all in yellow spreading warmth and the promise of sex. #Sex

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Zadie Smith:A past tense, future perfect kind of night. #Past

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#Compromise

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Zadie Smith:This is what divorce is: Taking things you no longer want from people you no longer love. #Divorce

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#Law and Lawyers

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#Choice

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Zadie Smith:Because this is the other thing about inmigrants: they cannot escape their history any more than you yourself can lose your shadow. #History and Historians

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#Language

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Zadie Smith:Ryan's freckles were a join-the-dot's enthusiast's wet dream. #Race and Racism

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