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I grew up feeling voiceless and powerless as a kid. I turned to books - fantasy books in particular - to give me comfort. As I grew up, I realized I could find that sense of power and voice if I simply started writing.
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When I was growing up, I didn't feel strong. I felt weak. I felt like a scared little kid. So I naturally turned to books to deal with that feeling, and I really turned to fantasy. That's really what influenced my decision to write a fantasy novel.
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The 'Harry Potter' books had a huge impact on me.
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My brother had a big comic book chest, and he kept the key in the exact same place. So when he would leave for camp or be gone for a few days at a friend's house, I would totally sneak into that room and open the comic book chest and see 'X-Men' and 'Sandman' and all the Neil Gaiman stuff and all the Marvel stuff and some old 'Thor' comics.
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I actually like love triangles in books. That's one of the main reasons why I wrote one. I really love love triangles.
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Like so many other young South Asians in America, I am the product of two cultures whose conflicting values pull at me with equal urgency. Never have I felt as torn between the two as I do about the question of marriage.
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My mother and father were born and raised in Pakistan, where religion is entrenched in the culture and the culture is explicitly unyielding.
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If I refused to get married, my parents would be brokenhearted and confused. Like any child close to her parents, I could not watch them suffer.
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