“The whole thing is too abstract, continued Zafar, this business of our lives standing for something else. All we know is that we don’t want it to stand for nothing. So we dive headlong into becoming heroes, becoming the big… — 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
