Children are weird. I was going to say 'most children,' but I think this a rare universal law. — Rumaan Alam Children Copy Share Image
Fashion has underscored the interchangeability of men for a long time, maybe from the outset. — Rumaan Alam Fashion Copy Share Image
With respect to parenting, biological age is not, for men, the concern it is for women. — Rumaan Alam Age Copy Share Image
Children's literature - the product of adult guesswork - often fails to account for its audience's slippery grasp on the world. — Rumaan Alam Audience Copy Share Image
Genre is a useful thing when organizing texts in a bookshop but immaterial to the particular exchange between writer and reader. — Rumaan Alam Between Copy Share Image
That's part of fashion's promise: that a girlfriend or boyfriend or a promotion are just one tie or sweater or pair of… — Rumaan Alam Fashion Copy Share Image
For many writers, the endless performance of being a writer - tweeting, appearing, making the rounds - is required simply to attract… — Rumaan Alam Attention Copy Share Image
Usually, when you see clothes on a model, by some transitive property, that garment is imbued with her beauty. — Rumaan Alam Beauty Copy Share Image
Shot glasses make me think of youth and a mode of drinking and living that was never mine, even when I was… — Rumaan Alam Age Copy Share Image
“One of her most reached-for truisms was that some percentage of jobs were indistinguishable from one another, as they all involved the… — Rumaan Alam Email Copy Share Image
For a long time, I thought that I was an enlightened parent by virtue of being an enlightened person. What a fool. — Rumaan Alam Fool Copy Share Image
I do think that I have a sensitivity to the depictions of maybe all minorities in literature. And I think that the… — Rumaan Alam American Copy Share Image
When you are young, it's deeply annoying to be told that certain things are a condition of your youth. There's almost always… — Rumaan Alam Age Copy Share Image
History is a story like any other, but black history is a story so devoid of logic that it frustrates the young… — Rumaan Alam Black history Copy Share Image
Writing takes gall. I like to think that's true even for writers with several books under their belt, writers who have been… — Rumaan Alam Books Copy Share Image
I've spent many hours of my life browsing in stores. At 21, I admired clothes I couldn't afford. At 30, I bought… — Rumaan Alam Beautiful Copy Share Image
Before the arrival of my first son, I gave up on the moribund business of magazine publishing, where I had long dreamed… — Rumaan Alam Business Copy Share Image
When you are what we call a 'minority writer,' a writer of color, a writer of any kind of difference, there is… — Rumaan Alam Everything Copy Share Image
You can't control what's going to happen to the book you're about to publish. — Rumaan Alam About Copy Share Image
I love fiction's ability to allow me to inhabit a wholly different life. — Rumaan Alam Different life Copy Share Image
I don't have a Winslow Homer or a Renoir, but I do have the liberty to live as I like. — Rumaan Alam Freedom Copy Share Image
I am not anti-Internet, and I don't think smart phones are a social ill. — Rumaan Alam I am Copy Share Image
I work when I work, and that is often dictated by the things I cannot control. — Rumaan Alam Cannot Copy Share Image
I reject the notion that one should feel guilty about what you don't know. — Rumaan Alam About Copy Share Image
I know I've had a charmed experience of being a parent, with healthy kids, a helpful partner, access to good day care,… — Rumaan Alam Day Copy Share Image
There are probably some readers who don't want a great American writer to acknowledge that cleaning out the bottom drawer of the… — Rumaan Alam American Copy Share Image
I am a binge reader, with a tendency to throw myself at a writer, immerse myself in their work. — Rumaan Alam Am Copy Share Image
I work when I'm alone, but I have children and a family and a job, so alone time is at a premium. — Rumaan Alam Alone Copy Share Image
Summer is meant to be for travel, for exploration, for leisure, but sometimes budgets and schedules dictate otherwise. — Rumaan Alam Exploration Copy Share Image
