In the end, your past is not my past and your truth is not my truth and your solution - is not my solution.
Zadie SmithEvery genuinely literary style, from the high authorial voice to Foster Wallace and his footnotes-within-footnotes, requires the reader to see the world from somewhere in particular, or from many places. So every novelist's literary style is nothing less than an ethical strategy - it's always an attempt to get the reader to care about people who are not the same as he or she is.
Zadie SmithThere's a perception that novels can't usually allow for your kind of absolute attention to detail.
Zadie Smith