I grew up raiding my brother's comic book stash. I tried to lose myself in fiction. — Sabaa Tahir Copy Share Image
I love my characters like family and cannot wait to share more of their story with readers. — Sabaa Tahir Copy Share Image
My readers and I, we have the same taste, and it's awesome. They'll tell me about stuff that I haven't heard of. — Sabaa Tahir Copy Share Image
I felt like an outcast and turned to books, fantasy in particular, to find a place for myself. Reading took me away… — Sabaa Tahir Copy Share Image
I actually like love triangles in books. That's one of the main reasons why I wrote one. I really love love triangles. — Sabaa Tahir Copy Share Image
At age 10, or even 15, it would have meant the world to me to see a Pakistani girl portrayed positively, let… — Sabaa Tahir Copy Share Image
You pour your soul into your book, but you never know how it will be received, and when people like your baby,… — Sabaa Tahir Copy Share Image
When you write your first book, you're writing in a vacuum; it doesn't matter how much time it takes. And then with… — Sabaa Tahir Copy Share Image
For a while, gently bumping into my nightstand meant a pile of 50 books clattering onto my head and the floor. After… — Sabaa Tahir Copy Share Image
Literature taught me that I wasn't alone, that I could become a writer if I worked at it, that my story mattered.… — Sabaa Tahir Copy Share Image
When I was growing up, I didn't feel strong. I felt weak. I felt like a scared little kid. So I naturally… — Sabaa Tahir Copy Share Image
My brother had a big comic book chest, and he kept the key in the exact same place. So when he would… — Sabaa Tahir Copy Share Image
The way I felt growing up, which was like an outcast - I was weird, I was a nerd, I read fantasy… — Sabaa Tahir Copy Share Image
I grew up feeling voiceless and powerless as a kid. I turned to books - fantasy books in particular - to give… — Sabaa Tahir Copy Share Image
Great novels have great characterization no matter what. But multiple points of view let me examine characters from entirely different perspectives, allowing… — Sabaa Tahir Copy Share Image
'The Sword of Shannara' is about two brothers who find themselves on an epic quest to save humanity. It borrows from 'Lord… — Sabaa Tahir Copy Share Image
Young readers can sense when you're not addressing what's actually going on. — Sabaa Tahir Copy Share Image
“I never feared the night, not even as a child, but Blackcliff’s night is different, heavy with a silence that makes you look over… — Sabaa Tahir Copy Share Image
“In the end, I don't answer her question. She doesn't answer mine. Instead, we sit without words, watching the city, the river, the desert… — Sabaa Tahir Copy Share Image
“There are two kinds of guilt: the kind that drowns you until you’re useless, and the kind that fires your soul to purpose.” — Sabaa Tahir Copy Share Image
When I asked myself what I'd want to see in a comic about a Pakistani superhero, the first word that came to mind was… — Sabaa Tahir Copy Share Image
If I'm really excited about a scene, I used to wait to write it, and now I'll just write it. When you do that,… — Sabaa Tahir Copy Share Image
“Your emotions make you human, Elias said to me weeks ago in the Serran Range. Even the unpleasant ones have a purpose. If you… — Sabaa Tahir Copy Share Image
You walk into BookCon, and everybody is so excited... it's just paradise. — Sabaa Tahir Copy Share Image
Reading about people who were so truly voiceless and powerless - Liberian child soldiers, Sudanese refugees, and, especially, Kashmiri women whose husbands or sons… — Sabaa Tahir Copy Share Image
I actually like love triangles in books. That's one of the main reasons why I wrote one. I really love love triangles. — Sabaa Tahir Copy Share Image
