California Quote by Rumaan Alam

When you are what we call a 'minority writer,' a writer of color, a writer of any kind of difference, there is some kind…

— Rumaan Alam

Fashion has underscored the interchangeability of men for a long time, maybe from the outset.

— Rumaan Alam

I've spent many hours of my life browsing in stores. At 21, I admired clothes I couldn't afford. At 30, I bought them. At…

— Rumaan Alam

With respect to parenting, biological age is not, for men, the concern it is for women.

— Rumaan Alam

Every Christmas, I cook an elaborate Mexican dinner.

— Rumaan Alam

That's part of fashion's promise: that a girlfriend or boyfriend or a promotion are just one tie or sweater or pair of shoes away.

— Rumaan Alam

I do think that I have a sensitivity to the depictions of maybe all minorities in literature. And I think that the experience of…

— Rumaan Alam

When you are young, it's deeply annoying to be told that certain things are a condition of your youth. There's almost always some condescension…

— Rumaan Alam

Children's literature - the product of adult guesswork - often fails to account for its audience's slippery grasp on the world.

— Rumaan Alam

“One of her most reached-for truisms was that some percentage of jobs were indistinguishable from one another, as they all involved the sending of…

— Rumaan Alam

Writing takes gall. I like to think that's true even for writers with several books under their belt, writers who have been doing it…

— Rumaan Alam

Genre is a useful thing when organizing texts in a bookshop but immaterial to the particular exchange between writer and reader.

— Rumaan Alam