You look at the Koran or the Bible, they all tell the same stories. You see them as the stories of the… — Rabih Alameddine Copy Share Image
How can I expect readers to know who I am if I do not tell them about my family, my friends, the… — 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
“Nick commenced a monologue explaining the impossibility of such a phenomenon: the subordination of content to the aesthetics of language in Arabic… — Rabih Alameddine Copy Share Image
“I believe that the choice of a first book, the book that opens your eyes and quickens your soul, is as involuntary… — Rabih Alameddine Copy Share Image
“Choosing which book isn't difficult. The choice is typically the last one I brought home. I acquire books constantly and place them… — Rabih Alameddine Copy Share Image
When I published my first work, I thought I would never be able to go back to Lebanon. I thought they'd arrest… — Rabih Alameddine Copy Share Image
“I slipped into art to escape life. I sneaked off into literature.” — Rabih Alameddine Copy Share Image
“I was a lonely boy. I spent all my time reading books and watching the world. [some] tried to draw me out… — Rabih Alameddine Copy Share Image
“When I read a book, I try my best, not always successfully, to let the wall crumble just a bit, the barricade… — Rabih Alameddine Copy Share Image
“Compared to the complexity of understanding grief, reading Foucault or Blanchot is like perusing a children’s picture book.” — Rabih Alameddine Copy Share Image
“I've only read one other book of his, Danube, from which, among his many impeccable sentences, one wrapped its octopus arms around… — Rabih Alameddine Copy Share Image
“Alain Robbe-Grillet once wrote that the worst thing to happen to the novel was the arrival of psychology. You can assume he… — Rabih Alameddine Copy Share Image
“Sex, like art, can unsettle a soul, can grind a heart in a mortar. Sex, like literature, can sneak the other within… — Rabih Alameddine Copy Share Image
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
“Most of the books published these days consist of a series of whines followed by an epiphany.” — 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 Image
“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 Image
“When you write about the past, you lie with each letter, with every grapheme, including the goddamn comma.” — Rabih Alameddine Copy Share Image
“He may be my half brother, but we're not related. A chasm of incommunicable worlds lies between us.” — Rabih Alameddine Copy Share Image
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 Image
“Other people are hazy phenomena that become corporeal only in my memories.” — Rabih Alameddine Copy Share Image
“In reality, the only true model of a successful woman was the Divine Sarah.” — Rabih Alameddine Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
