Common Quote by Ayad Akhtar

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

— Ayad Akhtar

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

— Ayad Akhtar

“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…

— Ayad Akhtar

“One of the things that I have learned, one of the attainments of the long travails and tribulations, has been, I think, coming to…

— Ayad Akhtar

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

— Ayad Akhtar

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

— Ayad Akhtar

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

— 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

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…

— Ayad Akhtar

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…

— Ayad Akhtar

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.…

— Ayad Akhtar

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…

— Ayad Akhtar