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 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

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

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

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

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

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 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