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Rumaan Alam Quotes

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Writer's block is a fiction.

Fiction Writer Block

Summer is meant to be for travel, for exploration, for leisure, but sometimes budgets and schedules dictate otherwise.

Travel Exploration Meant To Be Summer

Lindsay Hatton's novel 'Monterey Bay' so beautifully evokes the landscape of the titular locale, you'll feel transported to Northern California even if you're reading it on the bus on your morning commute.

Morning Reading Feel Landscape You

I work when I'm alone, but I have children and a family and a job, so alone time is at a premium.

Work Family Alone Children Time Job

I grew up in the D.C. suburbs, and what I like about that place is that there's not a strong regional affect in the cultural imagination like there is in Dallas or San Francisco or New York City. You have a little more freedom as a novelist this way. The suburbs become a generic idea, and the place doesn't intrude into the narrative.

Freedom Imagination New York City

You can't control what's going to happen to the book you're about to publish.

Control Book You Happen Going About

I think that in the cultural imagination, motherhood has a primacy that fatherhood just doesn't; and that's not to say that there aren't many fathers who are active and engaged and for whom that is their life's passion. But somehow, in the imagination, there's something different about maternity.

Life Passion Imagination Motherhood

This tension between ambition and parenthood, that's not a reckoning that many men face. There are plenty of men who say, 'Oh, I need to be there for my kids, and I can't do x or y professionally,' but for the most part, that's a struggle that belongs to women in society.

Women Struggle Men Ambition Society

Fiction is just lying.

Lying Fiction Just

If you can't empathize with other people, then you will never really be able to write well about them.

People You Will Never Write Well

I do think that I have a sensitivity to the depictions of maybe all minorities in literature. And I think that the experience of people who look like me is so rarely captured in big, mainstream American fiction that you tend to sort of empathize with any character of color who pops up.

Character Experience People Me Think

When I look at the list of my favorite works, writers who are women do tend to outnumber writers who are men for whatever reason.

Women Men Look Reason Whatever Who

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