Alaa Al Aswany Quotes
A fascinating book and a great pleasure to read: Betool Khedairi is a talented new voice in fiction.
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Speaking of trust, ever since I wrote this book, 'Liespotting,' no one wants to meet me in person anymore - no, no, no, no, no. They say, 'It's okay. We'll email you.' I can't even get a coffee date at Starbucks. My husband's like, 'Honey, deception? Maybe you could have focused on cooking. How about French cooking?'
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Yes, there is a terrible moral in 'Dorian Gray' - a moral which the prurient will not be able to find in it, but it will be revealed to all whose minds are healthy. Is this an artistic error? I fear it is. It is the only error in the book.
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Readers want to have the confidence that you understand the era in which the book is set, so for 'The Perfumer's Secret,' I needed to know everything about the First World War from a French perspective. I had to understand those people and that town in 1914.
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One half who graduate from college never read another book.
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For me, the whole process involves envisioning this book in my head as I'm working.
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Every time I got 'Amazing Spider-Man' or 'Fantastic Four' or another book firmly on the rails, we got pulled into some big event book or crossover and it cost momentum and messed badly with the pacing and structure of the book.
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I have to write what I can write, and writing the text of a picture book is like walking a tightrope, if you ramble off... As my friend Julius Lester says, 'A picture book is the essence of an experience.'
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One of the pleasantest things about book writing is that sometimes it brings one in touch with old friends.
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I write romance because I love to read romance.
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I have become infected, now that I see how beautifully a book is coming out of all this.
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Work is both my living and my pleasure.
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I have two daughters: One an open book, one a locked box. So the question of privacy is a challenging one. How much do kids need? How much should we give? How do we prepare them to live in a world where the very notion of privacy opens a generational chasm?
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I've always been obsessed with style and glamor and if I want anyone to get anything out of my book, it's how we can all have them in our lives.
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My pleasure was to copy, not to create.
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Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze. But the book cannot be understood unless one first learns to comprehend the language and read the letters in which it is composed.
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I'm pretty much an open book.
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I've been recording audiobooks for more than 30 years. I've recorded over 500 titles on all sort of things. I'm a sort of genre-free recording artist - classics and romances, I just finished a sci-fi book, self help... just all kinds of things.
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I had always wanted to include images in a novel, and with my first book, 'Telex From Cuba,' I made an elaborate website that is basically all images.
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The Bible is the book of my life. It's the book I live with, the book I live by, the book I want to die by.
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I will get a loan and pay the money the court asks for. But I will not lay down my writing and I still say this was an important book to write.
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If you read, you'll judge.
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Success or failure depends more upon attitude than upon capacity.
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A fascinating book and a great pleasure to read: Betool Khedairi is a talented new voice in fiction.
