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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…
• Fiction is the only way I know a human being can inhabit the mind of another human being.
• A writer has to true to him or herself. Period. That’s it!
• I wanted to pull away from the things that marked my parents as being different.
• A lot of my upbringing was about denying or fretting or evading,
• A bicultural upbringing is a rich but imperfect thing
• Each day she removes a small portion of the unwanted things in people's lives, though all of it, she thinks, was previously…
• Writing is one of the most assertive things a person can do.
• In fiction, plenty do the job of conveying information, rousing suspense, painting characters, enabling them to speak. But only certain sentences breathe…
• I would not send a first story anywhere. I would give myself time to write a number of stories.
• I am drawn to any story that makes me want to read from one sentence to the next. I have no other…
• 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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