Friendship A lot of women, when they're young, feel they have very good friends, and find later on that friendship is complicated. It's easy to be friends when... Zadie Smith 18
Creativity The idea that motherhood is inherently somehow a threat to creativity is just absurd. Zadie Smith 18
Opinion There is a kind of desperate need for somebody to tell everyone what to do, which I find really peculiar in America. And then when you tell them,... Zadie Smith 28
Alone Nowadays, I know the true reason I read is to feel less alone, to make a connection with a consciousness other than my own. Zadie Smith 17
