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> [Genre is a useful thing when organizing texts in a bookshop but immaterial to the particular exchange between writer and reader.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rumaan-alam/genre-is-a-useful-thing-when-organizing-texts-in-a-bookshop-but/)

[Rumaan Alam](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rumaan-alam/)

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## More by Rumaan Alam

> [When you are what we call a 'minority writer,' a writer of color, a writer of any kind of difference, there is some kind…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rumaan-alam/when-you-are-what-we-call-a-minority-writer-a-writer-of-color-a/)

[Rumaan Alam](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rumaan-alam/)

> [Fashion has underscored the interchangeability of men for a long time, maybe from the outset.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rumaan-alam/fashion-has-underscored-the-interchangeability-of-men-for-a-long-time/)

[Rumaan Alam](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rumaan-alam/)

> [I've spent many hours of my life browsing in stores. At 21, I admired clothes I couldn't afford. At 30, I bought them. At…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rumaan-alam/i-ve-spent-many-hours-of-my-life-browsing-in-stores-at-21-i-admired/)

[Rumaan Alam](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rumaan-alam/)

> [With respect to parenting, biological age is not, for men, the concern it is for women.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rumaan-alam/with-respect-to-parenting-biological-age-is-not-for-men-the-concern/)

[Rumaan Alam](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rumaan-alam/)

> [Every Christmas, I cook an elaborate Mexican dinner.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rumaan-alam/every-christmas-i-cook-an-elaborate-mexican-dinner/)

[Rumaan Alam](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rumaan-alam/)

> [That's part of fashion's promise: that a girlfriend or boyfriend or a promotion are just one tie or sweater or pair of shoes away.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rumaan-alam/that-s-part-of-fashion-s-promise-that-a-girlfriend-or-boyfriend-or-a/)

[Rumaan Alam](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rumaan-alam/)

> [I do think that I have a sensitivity to the depictions of maybe all minorities in literature. And I think that the experience of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rumaan-alam/i-do-think-that-i-have-a-sensitivity-to-the-depictions-of-maybe-all/)

[Rumaan Alam](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rumaan-alam/)

> [When you are young, it's deeply annoying to be told that certain things are a condition of your youth. There's almost always some condescension…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rumaan-alam/when-you-are-young-it-s-deeply-annoying-to-be-told-that-certain/)

[Rumaan Alam](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rumaan-alam/)

> [Children's literature - the product of adult guesswork - often fails to account for its audience's slippery grasp on the world.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rumaan-alam/children-s-literature-the-product-of-adult-guesswork-often-fails-to/)

[Rumaan Alam](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rumaan-alam/)

> [“One of her most reached-for truisms was that some percentage of jobs were indistinguishable from one another, as they all involved the sending of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rumaan-alam/one-of-her-most-reached-for-truisms-was-that-some-percentage-of-jobs/)

[Rumaan Alam](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rumaan-alam/)

> [Writing takes gall. I like to think that's true even for writers with several books under their belt, writers who have been doing it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rumaan-alam/writing-takes-gall-i-like-to-think-that-s-true-even-for-writers-with/)

[Rumaan Alam](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rumaan-alam/)

> [Genre is a useful thing when organizing texts in a bookshop but immaterial to the particular exchange between writer and reader.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rumaan-alam/genre-is-a-useful-thing-when-organizing-texts-in-a-bookshop-but/)

[Rumaan Alam](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rumaan-alam/)

> [Subtlety doesn't work with kids.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rumaan-alam/subtlety-doesn-t-work-with-kids/)

[Rumaan Alam](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rumaan-alam/)

> [Instead of a passion for the Yankees or fly-fishing or birding, I want to pass on to my sons a love of books, music,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rumaan-alam/instead-of-a-passion-for-the-yankees-or-fly-fishing-or-birding-i-want/)

[Rumaan Alam](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rumaan-alam/)

> [Before the arrival of my first son, I gave up on the moribund business of magazine publishing, where I had long dreamed of a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rumaan-alam/before-the-arrival-of-my-first-son-i-gave-up-on-the-moribund-business/)

[Rumaan Alam](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rumaan-alam/)

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