All Said Sayrafiezadeh Quotes
- We were poor, my mother and I, living in a world of doom and gloom, pessimism and bitterness, where storms raged and wolves scratched at… Bitterness
- Stasis is something that has marked my life since I was a boy growing up in Pittsburgh with my mother. It was the natural state… Boy
- I am haunted by what my life would have been had I not had the courage in my early twenties to leave Pittsburgh for New… Been
- I suppose my Iranian identity is one of the driving forces for being a writer: I want to set the record straight about who I… Driving
- There was something so immensely redemptive and exciting for me to imagine that my unknown father was not just a man who had abandoned me… Abandoned
- I feel more Jewish than I do Iranian. Feel
- The year the bus drivers went on strike in Pittsburgh, I was twenty-three and living on the edge of the city in a neighborhood that… Becoming
- My characters are not underachievers; they aspire to great things, but they are limited by the world around them. Aspire
- The difference between our family and other poor families was that my mother actively chose to be poor. She was highly literate, and she had… Actively