Quotes
Authors
Zia Haider Rahman
"By delivering experience, novels can alter the stance we adopt toward news - not much, I'm sure, but they can make it a little more difficult for us to consign "other people" to our tidy boxes. Widening our imaginative life might - it's not hard to imagine - also develop our ability to contemplate counterfactuals and our capacity to speculate about how things might differ from how they're being represented." --
Zia Haider Rahman
#People Quotes
#Imagine Quotes
#Difficult Quotes
“We women ought to put first things first. Why should we mind if men have their faces on the money, as long as we get our hands on it?”
“I was born in a library, in the fiction stacks.”
“It is evident that not all people that have the confidence of the prime minister are the same ones that have the confidence of the head of state.”
“I would like for people to not be stuck by the rules of what is expected of a classical musician. If you really want to do something different, don't be afraid to do so. Think of music itself and not the rules or expectations of people.”
“Let's face it, we're not about to earn our way to wealth. That's a mistake millions of Americans make. We think that if we work harder, smarter, longer, we'll achieve our financial dreams, but our paycheck alone-no matter how big-isn't the answer.”
“In the end, all journeys are spiritual. So go off the main road. Be givers of hospitality and gracious takers of it too. Accept the serendipitous moments of life because, when all is said and done, you may find out that they were not serendipitous at all. And know that faith is as real as bread broken among friends. What you believe will take you far on your journey. If you search carefully, you will find good food all along the way.”
“You can't write something actively trying to please everyone - you're going to end up with watery soup that way. You just have to write stories you would want to read and hope that people like them.”
“It is the ordinariness of us that is the same in all of us.”
