When I was 21 I wanted to write like Kafka. But, unfortunately for me, I wrote like a script editor for The Simpsons who'd briefly joined a religious cult and then discovered Foucault. Such is life.
Zadie SmithIt seems to me now that the deep structures [in writing] are often subconscious and set in childhood.
Zadie SmithWhen the male organ of a man stands erect, two thirds of his intelect go away. And one third of his religion.
Zadie Smith