Rumaan Alam

Fashion is about fantasy.

— Rumaan Alam

Fiction is just lying.

— Rumaan Alam

Vanity is a sensitive subject for gay men.

— Rumaan Alam

Time is a finite resource.

— Rumaan Alam

I'm not black myself, but my sons are.

— Rumaan Alam

Subtlety doesn't work with kids.

— Rumaan Alam

Writer's block is a fiction.

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Family is whatever you say it is.

— Rumaan Alam

I work when I work, and that is often dictated by the things I cannot control.

— Rumaan Alam

I reject the notion that one should feel guilty about what you don't know.

— Rumaan Alam

Nothing is ever ideal. You have to work all the same.

— Rumaan Alam

Form ossifies into genre through repetition.

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With respect to parenting, biological age is not, for men, the concern it is for women.

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Baking is a matter of precision and timing, but I just make things up as I go.

— Rumaan Alam

We have all come from a woman in some fashion.

— Rumaan Alam

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

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By a considerable margin, my family's largest-ever financial expenditure was the adoption of our two sons.

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I have a theory that because my kitchen is small, you can't preheat an oven and deal with dough at the same…

— Rumaan Alam

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

When I was somewhere between child and adult, my father left us. My first family broke apart, but this liberated me to…

— Rumaan Alam

For many writers, the endless performance of being a writer - tweeting, appearing, making the rounds - is required simply to attract…

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I think it's a not-uncommon experience for gay boys, young men, and even older men to spend a lot of time in…

— Rumaan Alam

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

— Rumaan Alam

Class is very, very fertile territory for American artists, and it has been for a long time.

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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

When we had our first son, four different people gave us the same present: a copy of Ezra Jack Keats' 'The Snowy…

— Rumaan Alam

Lindsay Hatton's novel 'Monterey Bay' so beautifully evokes the landscape of the titular locale, you'll feel transported to Northern California even if…

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I've spent many hours of my life browsing in stores. At 21, I admired clothes I couldn't afford. At 30, I bought…

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Before the arrival of my first son, I gave up on the moribund business of magazine publishing, where I had long dreamed…

— Rumaan Alam

In a strange way, Louise Erdrich is perhaps our least famous great American writer; she is not reclusive, but she is reticent,…

— Rumaan Alam

My husband and I adopted our children through a private agency, Spence-Chapin Services to Families and Children. As a nonprofit organization, it…

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Is deciding what you like an instinct, a sense that arrives as swiftly as my autoimmune response to cat dander? Or is…

— Rumaan Alam

I love fiction's ability to allow me to inhabit a wholly different life.

— Rumaan Alam

Uzodinma Iweala is a fine and confident novelist.

— Rumaan Alam

Every Christmas, I cook an elaborate Mexican dinner.

— Rumaan Alam

I don't have a Winslow Homer or a Renoir, but I do have the liberty to live as I like.

— Rumaan Alam

I am not anti-Internet, and I don't think smart phones are a social ill.

— Rumaan Alam

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

— Rumaan Alam

Usually, when you see clothes on a model, by some transitive property, that garment is imbued with her beauty.

— Rumaan Alam

Does a bona fide chimichurri have cilantro in it? Who cares? Cooking for your family, unless your family includes Joel Rubouchon, is…

— Rumaan Alam