Experience belongs to the actor, but the story belongs to the teller. We write so we will never forget.
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 … - 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 …
- Zia Haider Rahman
I had an indefatigable curiosity about everything. But why should my fate have depended upon that? Why does the curiosity of a child born into the lo… - Zia Haider Rahman
I had an indefatigable curiosity about everything. But why should my fate have depended upon that? Why does the curiosity of a child born into the lo…
A poison can hardly be called safe if for some reason specific to me it's ineffective against, say, my body. But the power of story on the human mind… - Zia Haider Rahman
A poison can hardly be called safe if for some reason specific to me it's ineffective against, say, my body. But the power of story on the human mind…
I don't want you to think that I'm being willfully obtuse, but I've never really grasped how point of view could be regarded as a matter of choice in… - Zia Haider Rahman
I don't want you to think that I'm being willfully obtuse, but I've never really grasped how point of view could be regarded as a matter of choice in…
One problem I have with talking about myself in the context of class divisiveness is that I can be - and indeed have been - used by others to demonst… - Zia Haider Rahman
One problem I have with talking about myself in the context of class divisiveness is that I can be - and indeed have been - used by others to demonst…
The technology broadens an individual's social field massively and at the same time makes it much, much easier and cheaper to consume gossip. We have… - Zia Haider Rahman
The technology broadens an individual's social field massively and at the same time makes it much, much easier and cheaper to consume gossip. We have…
Novels need readers of a certain kind, people who are patient and enjoy immersing themselves in another perspective for uninterrupted stretches of ti… - Zia Haider Rahman
Novels need readers of a certain kind, people who are patient and enjoy immersing themselves in another perspective for uninterrupted stretches of ti…
I'm interested in how a person forms her beliefs, how that happens. Beliefs of all kinds make up the animating force in each of us. Without them we w… - Zia Haider Rahman
I'm interested in how a person forms her beliefs, how that happens. Beliefs of all kinds make up the animating force in each of us. Without them we w…
I'm not sure, however, that what I have amounts to faith in the sense commonly understood. I have difficulty understanding the function of the word "… - Zia Haider Rahman
I'm not sure, however, that what I have amounts to faith in the sense commonly understood. I have difficulty understanding the function of the word "…
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