Believe Quote by Ayad Akhtar

“I don't have an ideal reader. I'm trying to reach something simple and, I believe, universal, in every single person.”

Ayad Akhtar

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I have no interest in problematizing things. So what I am writing to is that simple sense of being human in myself.

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I think that literary forms are losing their capacity to connect people to issues, to the experiences that feel most meaningful to them.

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“It’s because you’re different. You can’t live life by rules others give you. In that way, you and I are the same. You have…

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“One of the things that I have learned, one of the attainments of the long travails and tribulations, has been, I think, coming to a simpler sense of myself that I think correlates to a simpler sense of others. Something closer to what I now call the simple sense of being human, a sort of Wallace Stevens-esque formulation. I know…

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Religion has been an important part of my understanding, my inquiry into what it means to be human.

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The Quran is many different things, and we also have to see the Quran almost as a secondary source commenting on the Old Testament.

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I feel like one of the things that is central to American life is the religious experience, and I think that the experience of…

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Sooner or later we've all got to confront the reality that we have got to come to understand who we are and what we're…

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I started to understand that for me, art was no longer about self-expression but about creative engagement with the world. I started to respond…

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Here's the problem: we are living in a time when the act of reading is changing. The nature of a reader's attention is changing.…

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I don't know what it's like to be Jewish, but I suspect there is some aspect of that: being Jewish is the thing that…

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I see the American experience as being defined by the immigrant paradigm of rupture and renewal: rupture with the old world, the old ways,…

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