I long ago abandoned myself to a blind lust for the written word. Literature is my sandbox. In it I play, build… — Rabih Alameddine Copy Share Image
By remaining constrained in one's environment or country or family, one has little chance of being other than the original prescription. By… — Rabih Alameddine Copy Share Image
“A hakawati is a teller of tales, myths, and fables. A storyteller, and entertainer. A troubadour of sorts, someone who earns his… — Rabih Alameddine Copy Share Image
When I'm writing I don't feel any pressure. It's after I'm done that I start freaking out. But really, when I'm in… — Rabih Alameddine Copy Share Image
I'm surprised how often I'm asked about being a man with a woman narrator. I'm not the first, nor will I be… — Rabih Alameddine Copy Share Image
I think in Arabic at times, but when I'm writing it's all in English. And I don't try to make my English… — Rabih Alameddine Copy Share Image
“I’d read through the whole thing twice, and I used to go on and on: Marcel, the spectacular writer, my idol, and… — Rabih Alameddine Copy Share Image
I love a lot of American writers, but I think that for the most part the scope of what's accepted as great… — Rabih Alameddine Copy Share Image
I need to have one foot inside and one foot outside a culture to be able to write about it. For example,… — Rabih Alameddine Copy Share Image
By nature, a storyteller is a plagiarist. Everything one comes across--each incident, book, novel, life episode, story, person, news clip--is a coffee… — Rabih Alameddine Copy Share Image
“I like men and women who don't fit well in the dominant culture, or, as Alvar de Campos calls them, strangers in this place… — Rabih Alameddine Copy Share
“I was always alone, Doc, solitary whether I wished to be or not, ever since I could remember I wished to be lost in… — Rabih Alameddine Copy Share
“When you write about the past, you lie with each letter, with every grapheme, including the goddamn comma.” — Rabih Alameddine Copy Share
“He may be my half brother, but we're not related. A chasm of incommunicable worlds lies between us.” — Rabih Alameddine Copy Share
You look at the Koran or the Bible, they all tell the same stories. You see them as the stories of the Middle East.… — Rabih Alameddine Copy Share
“Other people are hazy phenomena that become corporeal only in my memories.” — Rabih Alameddine Copy Share
“In reality, the only true model of a successful woman was the Divine Sarah.” — Rabih Alameddine Copy Share
“I told her I was not sure I could bear living with memories, she said, Look up at the stars, look, they are not… — Rabih Alameddine Copy Share
“In Beirut, death’s unremitting light shines bright for all to see, brighter than the Mediterranean sun, brighter than the night’s Russian missiles, brighter than… — Rabih Alameddine Copy Share
“In the summer of 1982, while Israeli armored tanks and gunships imposed a siege of another age on rampartless Beirut, cutting off the water… — Rabih Alameddine Copy Share
How can I expect readers to know who I am if I do not tell them about my family, my friends, the relationships in… — Rabih Alameddine Copy Share
By nature, a storyteller is a plagiarist. Everything one comes across--each incident, book, novel, life episode, story, person, news clip--is a coffee bean that… — Rabih Alameddine Copy Share
