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Monica Ali Quotes

I always try to create conflict and drama in my books; it's the engine of the novel.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: british
Birth: October 20, 1967

Topics

Conflict Create Drama Try Always

In 1932, the predecessor organization, the CDC, took 299 black sharecroppers from the South who had syphilis. They offered them free healthcare, hot lunches, and free burial. They said you can only come to us for healthcare. These were men who were sharecroppers, and they had syphilis. They were never told they had syphilis.

Robert Kennedy, Jr.

Men Organization Free Black You Hot

I think eventually I want to become a teacher, like my father wanted to be, and hopefully positively influence the next generation.

Father Teacher Think Generation Want

Bookstores are lonely forts, spilling light onto the sidewalk. They civilize their neighborhoods.

Light Lonely Neighborhoods Sidewalk

One of my main wishes in wanting to write about my mother was to explore the impact of her death on my life, explore our relationship, think about the different versions of myself that I was with and without her. I also had the really strong wish to bring her to life for my children, who were born after she was gone.

Life Mother Relationship Children

My best work happened on the stage.

Work Best Stage Happened Best Work

It was not an asteroid or comet, because it would have killed everything.

Robert T. Bakker

Everything Because Would Comet

Look at my face. Does it look like I can take a good hit?

Good Face Look I Can Take Like

After writing 'The Omnivore's Dilemma,' I wanted to write a book that got past the choir, that got to people who didn't care about how their food was grown but who did care about their health.

Health Food Past People Writing

Filming is like a house, you have to feel comfortable in it.

Feel You House Comfortable Like

I could never really choose a favorite book, but whenever I'm asked what my favorite movie is, I always say 'Withnail & I,' a British film from 1987. It's funny and sad and absolutely gorgeous to look at. It's the film I can watch over and over again.

Funny Sad Book Choose Look I Can

I don't wear heels.

I don't get that many scripts. Back in Australia, I've pretty much done my own shows and really no work outside of that. It's only now that I'm starting to read some Hollywood film scripts, and I've read some really great ones.

Work Great Back Done Now Australia

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