Writer Quotes by Rumaan Alam

Writer's block is a fiction.

— Rumaan Alam

Fiction is just lying.

— Rumaan Alam

A writer cannot be judged for his project, only its execution.

— Rumaan Alam

You can't control what's going to happen to the book you're about to publish.

— Rumaan Alam

Uzodinma Iweala is a fine and confident novelist.

— Rumaan Alam

Genre is a useful thing when organizing texts in a bookshop but immaterial to the particular exchange between writer and reader.

— Rumaan Alam

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

I am a binge reader, with a tendency to throw myself at a writer, immerse myself in their work.

— Rumaan Alam

If writing really is empathy, then understanding your place in society might actually help you achieve it.

— Rumaan Alam

Children's books deal in idealized worlds, so they're a document of how our notion of ideal worlds has changed over time.

— Rumaan Alam

Some writers are prolific; some are shape-shifters. It's rare and intimidating to encounter one who is both.

— 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…

— Rumaan Alam

Wishing there were more children's books like 'The Snowy Day' is a bit like wishing there were more grownup books like 'Anna…

— Rumaan Alam

When you are what we call a 'minority writer,' a writer of color, a writer of any kind of difference, there is…

— Rumaan Alam

I always like it when writers posit writing as an act of empathy. It's such a grand turn of phrase, such a…

— Rumaan Alam