“Can making half the print small save the whole thing from its inherent contradiction?” — Zia Haider Rahman Contradiction Copy Share Image
“Life can only be understood backward; the trouble is, it has to be lived forward.” — Zia Haider Rahman Copy Share Image
Experience belongs to the actor, but the story belongs to the teller. We write so we will never forget. — Zia Haider Rahman Actor Copy Share Image
Our interaction with our friends, for instance, is in large part an interaction with representations in our own head of the people… — Zia Haider Rahman Copy Share Image
The twentieth century saw a professionalization of fiction writing, particularly in its second half and particularly in the Anglo-Saxon world - not… — Zia Haider Rahman Fiction writing Copy Share Image
“that the truth is finer and that the only answers each of us hears are to the questions we are capable of… — Zia Haider Rahman Truth Copy Share Image
“Our memories do not visit us in chronology, and the story we form by joining up the memories involves choices with the… — Zia Haider Rahman Memories Copy Share Image
There is snobbery in the idea that the modern cult of celebrity has not touched the lofty realm of letters. We are… — Zia Haider Rahman Copy Share Image
The difference does not lie in the things that news does that novels do not do, but in the things that novels… — Zia Haider Rahman Books Copy Share Image
I am sympathetic to the kind of faith that does not evangelize or raise banners but is the faith drawn on by… — Zia Haider Rahman Copy Share Image
“As I reached the highest step, I turned. Spread along the platform was a mass of bobbing black hair like a long… — Zia Haider Rahman Copy Share Image
“Maps, contour maps and all maps, intrigue us for the metaphors that they are: tools to give us a sense of something… — Zia Haider Rahman Geography Copy Share Image
My own disposition is to trust the reader. Of course, there's a line between trusting the reader and expecting her to read… — Zia Haider Rahman Books Copy Share Image
A poison can hardly be called safe if for some reason specific to me it's ineffective against, say, my body. But the… — Zia Haider Rahman Anecdote Copy Share Image
I'm not sure, however, that what I have amounts to faith in the sense commonly understood. I have difficulty understanding the function… — Zia Haider Rahman Copy Share Image
There are a variety of ways in which a wedge is driven between the reality of the world outside, the motion of… — Zia Haider Rahman Driven Copy Share Image
I am at my happiest when I'm problem solving and a large part of writing is for me a lovely labor in… — Zia Haider Rahman Curiosity Copy Share Image
There was a period of a few months, however, when I had a dreadful physical pain. I had just started writing a… — Zia Haider Rahman Nightmare Copy Share Image
The technology broadens an individual's social field massively and at the same time makes it much, much easier and cheaper to consume… — Zia Haider Rahman Addiction Copy Share Image
There have been studies concluding that most people mostly know people only within their own social class - although such a conclusion… — Zia Haider Rahman Boundaries Copy Share Image
“The whole thing is too abstract, continued Zafar, this business of our lives standing for something else. All we know is that… — Zia Haider Rahman Business Copy Share Image
The twentieth century saw a professionalization of fiction writing, particularly in its second half and particularly in the Anglo-Saxon world - not… — Zia Haider Rahman Book Copy Share Image
One problem I have with talking about myself in the context of class divisiveness is that I can be - and indeed… — Zia Haider Rahman Absence Copy Share Image
I had a tough childhood, yes. I was born in rural Bangladesh to parents who had had no education beyond high school.… — Zia Haider Rahman Copy Share Image
I don't want you to think that I'm being willfully obtuse, but I've never really grasped how point of view could be… — Zia Haider Rahman Choices Copy Share Image
I'm interested in how a person forms her beliefs, how that happens. Beliefs of all kinds make up the animating force in… — Zia Haider Rahman Copy Share Image
Writing is indeed essential to me. I have been writing for a long time but not for publication. I'm sure there are… — Zia Haider Rahman Copy Share Image
Novels need readers of a certain kind, people who are patient and enjoy immersing themselves in another perspective for uninterrupted stretches of… — Zia Haider Rahman Books Copy Share Image
News has a way of distancing us from events, even as it informs us about them. News articles almost always present both… — Zia Haider Rahman Copy Share Image
Listening to people discussing a novel can be very interesting, if you've read whatever novel is being discussed. No one, it seems,… — Zia Haider Rahman Book Copy Share Image
Until I reached my late teens, there was not enough money for luxuries - a holiday, a car, or a computer. I… — Zia Haider Rahman Book Copy Share Image
The mathematical tilt remains basic to my epistemological perspective, my howling plea in the still of night for epistemic humility. Mathematics gave… — Zia Haider Rahman Copy Share Image
My parents were entirely unpredictable and what they said very unreliable, which meant I became very attuned to the range of other… — Zia Haider Rahman Betrayal Copy Share Image
By delivering experience, novels can alter the stance we adopt toward news - not much, I'm sure, but they can make it… — Zia Haider Rahman Ability Copy Share Image
“My point is that you could think of the people you meet in your life as questions, there to help you figure… — Zia Haider Rahman Life Copy Share Image
I had an indefatigable curiosity about everything. But why should my fate have depended upon that? Why does the curiosity of a… — Zia Haider Rahman Baby Copy Share Image
The mathematics is the odd one, odd because I'm not sure how to measure its effect. It is so fundamental to my… — Zia Haider Rahman Beauty Copy Share Image
My parents have always had a very limited command of English. Of course, when we first arrived in the UK, none of… — Zia Haider Rahman Ability Copy Share Image
Another effect of news articles is that the events, however frightening, can thus be consigned to the box of things that happen… — Zia Haider Rahman Alpha male Copy Share Image
