“Always imagine him close to you when you pray,' she explained. 'If you think of Him as near, then that's where you will find Him. And if you think of Him as far away, then that's where He will be.” — Ayad Akhtar Copy Share Image
I have no interest in problematizing things. So what I am writing to is that simple sense of being human in myself. — Ayad Akhtar Copy Share Image
I think that literary forms are losing their capacity to connect people to issues, to the experiences that feel most meaningful to them. — Ayad Akhtar Copy Share Image
“It’s because you’re different. You can’t live life by rules others give you. In that way, you and I are the same. You have… — Ayad Akhtar Copy Share Image
“One of the things that I have learned, one of the attainments of the long travails and tribulations, has been, I think, coming to… — Ayad Akhtar Copy Share Image
Religion has been an important part of my understanding, my inquiry into what it means to be human. — Ayad Akhtar Copy Share Image
The Quran is many different things, and we also have to see the Quran almost as a secondary source commenting on the Old Testament. — Ayad Akhtar Copy Share Image
I feel like one of the things that is central to American life is the religious experience, and I think that the experience of… — Ayad Akhtar Copy Share Image
I don't have an ideal reader. I'm trying to reach something simple and, I believe, universal, in every single person. — Ayad Akhtar Copy Share Image
Sooner or later we've all got to confront the reality that we have got to come to understand who we are and what we're… — Ayad Akhtar Copy Share Image
I started to understand that for me, art was no longer about self-expression but about creative engagement with the world. I started to respond… — Ayad Akhtar Copy Share Image
Here's the problem: we are living in a time when the act of reading is changing. The nature of a reader's attention is changing.… — Ayad Akhtar Copy Share Image
I don't know what it's like to be Jewish, but I suspect there is some aspect of that: being Jewish is the thing that… — Ayad Akhtar Copy Share Image
