I like Beryl Bainbridge a great deal, and she is a writer who absolutely demands to be read a second, third, and fourth time. I admire her great courage in leaving so much unsaid and asking the reader to really engage her brain.
I always try to create conflict and drama in my books; it's the engine of the novel. - Monica Ali
I always try to create conflict and drama in my books; it's the engine of the novel.
- Monica Ali
If the culture is so all pervasive that you can’t think outside of it, how are you making genuine choices? - Monica Ali
If the culture is so all pervasive that you can’t think outside of it, how are you making genuine choices?
A new car is not going to change your life. - Monica Ali
A new car is not going to change your life.
The thing about getting older is that you don't need everything to be possible any more, you just need things to be certain. - Monica Ali
The thing about getting older is that you don't need everything to be possible any more, you just need things to be certain.
Kids are naturally inventive and curious and creative, but most adults have had that beaten out of them. Writing is a form of play; you have to get r… - Monica Ali
Kids are naturally inventive and curious and creative, but most adults have had that beaten out of them. Writing is a form of play; you have to get r…
I wish I got a lie-in on Saturday mornings but I never do. - Monica Ali
I wish I got a lie-in on Saturday mornings but I never do.
I guess there's a sort of cycle with writing books. There's all the researching and then the imagining and writing - which is the real job - and then… - Monica Ali
I guess there's a sort of cycle with writing books. There's all the researching and then the imagining and writing - which is the real job - and then…
I don't want to get hung up on what 'people,' that nebulous mass, think about me. That's the way to unhappiness, I think. - Monica Ali
I don't want to get hung up on what 'people,' that nebulous mass, think about me. That's the way to unhappiness, I think.
I started writing 'Brick Lane' when my children were two years and five months old. We were on holiday in the north of England when I was overtaken b… - Monica Ali
I started writing 'Brick Lane' when my children were two years and five months old. We were on holiday in the north of England when I was overtaken b…
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