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Most people trusted in the future, assuming that their preferred version of it would unfold. Blindly planning for it, envisioning things that…
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Fiction is the only way I know a human being can inhabit the mind of another human being.
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A writer has to true to him or herself. Period. That’s it!
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I wanted to pull away from the things that marked my parents as being different.
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A lot of my upbringing was about denying or fretting or evading,
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A bicultural upbringing is a rich but imperfect thing
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Each day she removes a small portion of the unwanted things in people's lives, though all of it, she thinks, was previously…
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Writing is one of the most assertive things a person can do.
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In fiction, plenty do the job of conveying information, rousing suspense, painting characters, enabling them to speak. But only certain sentences breathe…
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I would not send a first story anywhere. I would give myself time to write a number of stories.
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I am drawn to any story that makes me want to read from one sentence to the next. I have no other…
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On the screen I saw tanks rolling through dusty streets, and fallen buildings, and forests of unfamiliar trees into which East Pakistani…
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