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> [Academic writing you have to get right. Fiction you have to get plausible. And there's a world of difference.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elliott-colla/academic-writing-you-have-to-get-right-fiction-you-have-to-get/)

[Elliott Colla](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elliott-colla/)

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## More by Elliott Colla

> [In the Green Zone in Iraq you have your radio, you have your food, you have your own electricity, your own toilets. Everything is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elliott-colla/in-the-green-zone-in-iraq-you-have-your-radio-you-have-your-food-you/)

[Elliott Colla](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elliott-colla/)

> [There are certainly times in history where power associates itself closely with fields that we would call the humanities, like rulers surrounding themselves with…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elliott-colla/there-are-certainly-times-in-history-where-power-associates-itself/)

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> [A high-ranking Syrian official in DC laughed when he heard I was reading Michel Aflaq and writing this book. He said, "Let me tell…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elliott-colla/a-high-ranking-syrian-official-in-dc-laughed-when-he-heard-i-was/)

[Elliott Colla](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elliott-colla/)

> [Academic writing you have to get right. Fiction you have to get plausible. And there's a world of difference.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elliott-colla/academic-writing-you-have-to-get-right-fiction-you-have-to-get/)

[Elliott Colla](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elliott-colla/)

> [Noir is where the clarity of moral divisions break down, the black and whites turn into grays.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elliott-colla/noir-is-where-the-clarity-of-moral-divisions-break-down-the-black-and/)

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> [In translation studies we talk about domestication - translation styles that make something familiar - or estrangement - translation styles that make something radically…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elliott-colla/in-translation-studies-we-talk-about-domestication-translation-styles/)

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> [You always have regime-friendly poets like Muhammad Mahdi al-Jawahiri, whose career basically spans the twentieth century. He's an anti-imperialist, friendly with the Communists, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elliott-colla/you-always-have-regime-friendly-poets-like-muhammad-mahdi-al-jawahiri/)

[Elliott Colla](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elliott-colla/)

> [Take Ezra Pound's translations of poetry from Chinese. He doesn't really know Chinese, and the very strange results that he comes up with aren't…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elliott-colla/take-ezra-pound-s-translations-of-poetry-from-chinese-he-doesn-t/)

[Elliott Colla](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elliott-colla/)

> [Arabs don't do crime fiction. I read crime fiction and I read Arabic literature, and I wish this was a novel I could have…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elliott-colla/arabs-don-t-do-crime-fiction-i-read-crime-fiction-and-i-read-arabic/)

[Elliott Colla](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elliott-colla/)

> [Michel Aflaq - is bad poetry wrapped in the guise of utopian politics, or great poetry wrapped in the guise of horrible politics.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elliott-colla/michel-aflaq-is-bad-poetry-wrapped-in-the-guise-of-utopian-politics/)

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> [Each discipline has the capacity to be interested in politics, and each would ask different questions of what politics is, what constitutes power, how…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elliott-colla/each-discipline-has-the-capacity-to-be-interested-in-politics-and/)

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> [The more I've reflected on that and asked Iraqi friends, the more I realize that the corruption in Iraq has nothing to do with…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elliott-colla/the-more-i-ve-reflected-on-that-and-asked-iraqi-friends-the-more-i/)

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> [Culture is invited to the table usually only as raw material that needs no analysis.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elliott-colla/culture-is-invited-to-the-table-usually-only-as-raw-material-that/)

[Elliott Colla](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elliott-colla/)

> [Palestinian society is filled with poetry, but not experimental poetry. The Palestinian poetry that people know is not the modernist experimentations, it's certain kinds…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elliott-colla/palestinian-society-is-filled-with-poetry-but-not-experimental-poetry/)

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> [There's actually a lot of information on a lot of people and that is a major achievement of a police state.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elliott-colla/there-s-actually-a-lot-of-information-on-a-lot-of-people-and-that-is/)

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