I had a tough childhood, yes. I was born in rural Bangladesh to parents who had had no education beyond high school. We moved to the UK where I grew up in poverty, in some of the worst conditions in… — Zia Haider Rahman 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 out who… — Zia Haider Rahman 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 child born… — 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 wave of… — Zia Haider Rahman 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 the event… — 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 signals human… — Zia Haider Rahman Copy Share Image
Until I reached my late teens, there was not enough money for luxuries - a holiday, a car, or a computer. I learned how… — 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 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 your mind.… — 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 do that… — Zia Haider Rahman 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 outlook on… — 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 time. Reading… — Zia Haider Rahman 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 power of… — Zia Haider Rahman Copy Share Image
