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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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 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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If utopian fiction became the new trend, I wouldn't read it.
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The best characters in books are always the difficult ones, and why would you want to fall in love with someone difficult? The ones I'd fall in love with are the ones I'd definitely keep out of a book.
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I don't look at the tabloids. I don't read the tabloids.
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I don't read a lot of books.
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No man burdens his mind with small matters unless he has some very good reason for doing so.
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I hear YouTube, Twitter and Facebook are merging to form a super Social Media site - YouTwitFace.
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Regina Spektor is great. I can't wait to see what more she's capable of.
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A fascinating book and a great pleasure to read: Betool Khedairi is a talented new voice in fiction.
