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> [I don't have an ideal reader. I'm trying to reach something simple and, I believe, universal, in every single person.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayad-akhtar/i-don-t-have-an-ideal-reader-i-m-trying-to-reach-something-simple-and/)

[Ayad Akhtar](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ayad-akhtar/)

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## More by Ayad Akhtar

> [I have no interest in problematizing things. So what I am writing to is that simple sense of being human in myself.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayad-akhtar/i-have-no-interest-in-problematizing-things-so-what-i-am-writing-to/)

[Ayad Akhtar](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ayad-akhtar/)

> [I think that literary forms are losing their capacity to connect people to issues, to the experiences that feel most meaningful to them.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayad-akhtar/i-think-that-literary-forms-are-losing-their-capacity-to-connect/)

[Ayad Akhtar](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ayad-akhtar/)

> [“It’s because you’re different. You can’t live life by rules others give you. In that way, you and I are the same. You have…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayad-akhtar/it-s-because-you-re-different-you-can-t-live-life-by-rules-others/)

[Ayad Akhtar](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ayad-akhtar/)

> [“One of the things that I have learned, one of the attainments of the long travails and tribulations, has been, I think, coming to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayad-akhtar/one-of-the-things-that-i-have-learned-one-of-the-attainments-of-the/)

[Ayad Akhtar](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ayad-akhtar/)

> [Religion has been an important part of my understanding, my inquiry into what it means to be human.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayad-akhtar/religion-has-been-an-important-part-of-my-understanding-my-inquiry/)

[Ayad Akhtar](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ayad-akhtar/)

> [The Quran is many different things, and we also have to see the Quran almost as a secondary source commenting on the Old Testament.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayad-akhtar/the-quran-is-many-different-things-and-we-also-have-to-see-the-quran/)

[Ayad Akhtar](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ayad-akhtar/)

> [I feel like one of the things that is central to American life is the religious experience, and I think that the experience of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayad-akhtar/i-feel-like-one-of-the-things-that-is-central-to-american-life-is-the/)

[Ayad Akhtar](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ayad-akhtar/)

> [I don't have an ideal reader. I'm trying to reach something simple and, I believe, universal, in every single person.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayad-akhtar/i-don-t-have-an-ideal-reader-i-m-trying-to-reach-something-simple-and/)

[Ayad Akhtar](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ayad-akhtar/)

> [Sooner or later we've all got to confront the reality that we have got to come to understand who we are and what we're…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayad-akhtar/sooner-or-later-we-ve-all-got-to-confront-the-reality-that-we-have/)

[Ayad Akhtar](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ayad-akhtar/)

> [I started to understand that for me, art was no longer about self-expression but about creative engagement with the world. I started to respond…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayad-akhtar/i-started-to-understand-that-for-me-art-was-no-longer-about-self/)

[Ayad Akhtar](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ayad-akhtar/)

> [Here's the problem: we are living in a time when the act of reading is changing. The nature of a reader's attention is changing.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayad-akhtar/here-s-the-problem-we-are-living-in-a-time-when-the-act-of-reading-is/)

[Ayad Akhtar](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ayad-akhtar/)

> [I don't know what it's like to be Jewish, but I suspect there is some aspect of that: being Jewish is the thing that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayad-akhtar/i-don-t-know-what-it-s-like-to-be-jewish-but-i-suspect-there-is-some/)

[Ayad Akhtar](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ayad-akhtar/)

> [I see the American experience as being defined by the immigrant paradigm of rupture and renewal: rupture with the old world, the old ways,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayad-akhtar/i-see-the-american-experience-as-being-defined-by-the-immigrant/)

[Ayad Akhtar](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ayad-akhtar/)

> [I consider myself to have been formed by a lot of the locutions and aesthetics and principles of the Muslim way of life, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayad-akhtar/i-consider-myself-to-have-been-formed-by-a-lot-of-the-locutions-and/)

[Ayad Akhtar](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ayad-akhtar/)

> [If you want to really deeply touch the viewer or the reader, the theater might be the most powerful way to do it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayad-akhtar/if-you-want-to-really-deeply-touch-the-viewer-or-the-reader-the/)

[Ayad Akhtar](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ayad-akhtar/)

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