{"id":109258,"date":"2002-12-17T11:29:09","date_gmt":"2002-12-17T16:29:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=109258"},"modified":"2024-10-27T09:23:12","modified_gmt":"2024-10-27T13:23:12","slug":"zadie-smith-speaks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=109258","title":{"rendered":"Zadie Smith Speaks"},"content":{"rendered":"

There’s an interesting article about Zadie Smith, author of White Teeth<\/em>, in the New York Times. I particularly enjoyed this quote. I see so much truth in it. She is discussing the culture of fame. <\/p>\n

“Everything in the culture is so hysterical. Everything is fantastic, or it’s the worst thing; you should either be given a Nobel Prize or shot at dawn.” <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The article ends with her saying something which gave me a chill up my spine. Love this: <\/p>\n

“I’m influenced by everything I read, shamelessly. In a review someone said, `Oh, she sounds very much like Amis.’ I was flattered by that. I love Amis. Thank you very much. I think if I carry on plagiarizing for 15 years, it will settle like silt, and I’ll write something really great.” <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There’s an interesting article about Zadie Smith, author of White Teeth, in the New York Times. I particularly enjoyed this quote. I see so much truth in it. She is discussing the culture of fame. “Everything in the culture is … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[2208],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109258"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=109258"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109258\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":109259,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109258\/revisions\/109259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=109258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=109258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=109258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}