I am at my happiest when I'm problem solving and a large part of writing is for me a lovely labor in problem solving. Every act of discovery in writing involves a process of figuring out why I'm not seeing what I need to see. Niggling feelings, discomforts, a sense that you've forgotten or overlooked something, a sudden curiosity about what if here? - these are priceless. They are the bases of problems and lead the way.
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…
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…
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…
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 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 "…
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…
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