If I'm really excited about a scene, I used to wait to write it, and now I'll just write it. When you… — Sabaa Tahir Copy Share Image
The way I felt growing up, which was like an outcast - I was weird, I was a nerd, I read fantasy… — Sabaa Tahir Copy Share Image
I grew up feeling voiceless and powerless as a kid. I turned to books - fantasy books in particular - to give… — Sabaa Tahir Copy Share Image
I wanted to write something that reflected the violence and horror of the world, but I also wanted to reflect the way… — Sabaa Tahir Copy Share Image
Honesty and truth in writing is so important, and I think that YA writing above all is honest, and I think that… — Sabaa Tahir Copy Share Image
I like to write when things are calm - and when I'm not worried about my well-being, the well-being of those I… — Sabaa Tahir Copy Share Image
When you write your first book, you're writing in a vacuum; it doesn't matter how much time it takes. And then with… — Sabaa Tahir Copy Share Image
Literature taught me that I wasn't alone, that I could become a writer if I worked at it, that my story mattered.… — Sabaa Tahir Copy Share Image
“I never feared the night, not even as a child, but Blackcliff’s night is different, heavy with a silence that makes you look over… — Sabaa Tahir Copy Share Image
“In the end, I don't answer her question. She doesn't answer mine. Instead, we sit without words, watching the city, the river, the desert… — Sabaa Tahir Copy Share Image
“There are two kinds of guilt: the kind that drowns you until you’re useless, and the kind that fires your soul to purpose.” — Sabaa Tahir Copy Share Image
When I asked myself what I'd want to see in a comic about a Pakistani superhero, the first word that came to mind was… — Sabaa Tahir Copy Share Image
If I'm really excited about a scene, I used to wait to write it, and now I'll just write it. When you do that,… — Sabaa Tahir Copy Share Image
“Your emotions make you human, Elias said to me weeks ago in the Serran Range. Even the unpleasant ones have a purpose. If you… — Sabaa Tahir Copy Share Image
You walk into BookCon, and everybody is so excited... it's just paradise. — Sabaa Tahir Copy Share Image
Reading about people who were so truly voiceless and powerless - Liberian child soldiers, Sudanese refugees, and, especially, Kashmiri women whose husbands or sons… — Sabaa Tahir Copy Share Image
I actually like love triangles in books. That's one of the main reasons why I wrote one. I really love love triangles. — Sabaa Tahir Copy Share Image
