Addiction is a very compelling subject for literature - especially now that it's nearly impossible to come out of adult experience without… — Porochista Khakpour Addiction Copy Share Image
In South Pasadena, artists were around but invisible somehow. Even though it was just a fifteen-minute drive from Downtown LA, it felt… — Porochista Khakpour Art Copy Share Image
I both loved and hated South Pasadena. On the one hand, it was so diverse - all my closest friends were immigrants… — Porochista Khakpour Bits Copy Share Image
There is less gray area there, less doubt. There is a security in being some thing all the way. Our culture, too,… — Porochista Khakpour Advertising Copy Share Image
The original Zal story by Ferdowsi gives a very moving account of an infant who had all odds against him - he… — Porochista Khakpour Accounts Copy Share Image
I write very raw, ugly, illiterate first drafts very quickly (novels are always in first draft in under a year) and then… — Porochista Khakpour Books Copy Share Image
It [9/11 tragedy] has affected us on so many levels: economically, morally, spiritually, ethically. It's been all over the place. A new… — Porochista Khakpour Affected Copy Share Image
The radical is simply being given more room in the mainstream. And I think young people - I'm talking about the very… — Porochista Khakpour Bigs Copy Share Image
My characters' addictions are what makes them a bit stylized or "grotesque" - not just in appearance but through what drives them.… — Porochista Khakpour Addiction Copy Share Image
I wanted to literalize the surreal here. Those are my favorite kinds of stories. I love when Gabriel García Márquez does that,… — Porochista Khakpour Absurd Copy Share Image
I love outsider stories. And I also like a lot of genre fiction, too. So I wanted to write a literary book… — Porochista Khakpour Age Copy Share Image
9/11 was just an enormous event in so many senses of the word - I mean, we are still in the "post-9/11… — Porochista Khakpour Awful Copy Share Image
The Illusionist is the storyteller in so many ways. Symbols become his obsession. It's not simply about creating plot - one must… — Porochista Khakpour Action Copy Share Image
Being unique seems more desirable than ever. People are exhausted by clichés, by platitudes, by mass-produced realities, by what's been done and… — Porochista Khakpour Art Copy Share Image
I guess none of the sides of my hyphen are particularly subtle cultures. But perhaps there is also a sense that these… — Porochista Khakpour Behavior Copy Share Image
“Don’t ask for advice too much. Go with you, as gritty as that might be at times.” — Porochista Khakpour Time Copy Share Image
I always read the Latin American writers. I love so many of them: Gabriel García Márquez, José Donoso, Alejo Carpentier, Jorge Luis… — Porochista Khakpour American writer Copy Share Image
Be careful what you wish for, I guess. I believe - this will sound bloated, but I believe it - that true… — Porochista Khakpour Art Copy Share Image
My interest, perhaps, came out of the trauma of being a young immigrant in this country and constantly feeling my "resident alien"… — Porochista Khakpour Adults Copy Share Image
Maybe in writing about and through trauma it was therapeutic in a way, but it didn't feel like it at the time.… — Porochista Khakpour Book Copy Share Image
“...he was reminded over and over how the best part about living was that others could not know your thoughts...” — Porochista Khakpour Philosophy of Mind Copy Share Image
For me, every human is a little bit an exaggerated version of a real human - in most cases, they are versions… — Porochista Khakpour Bits Copy Share Image
I write first drafts feverishly fast, and then I spend years editing. It's not that sentence-by-sentence perfectionist technique some writers I admire… — Porochista Khakpour Admire Copy Share Image
I love to read and teach experimental fiction but yes, neither this work nor my first novel is really that experimental. It… — Porochista Khakpour Books Copy Share Image
I just see in pop culture, music, visual art, books, etc., a real hunger for the new and different, and I think… — Porochista Khakpour Art Copy Share Image
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