You know how if you're born in a certain situation you always expect your life to run on a steady trajectory? I've never really had a sense of that. I assume that life is going to go up and down.
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
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…
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.
A new car is not going to change your life. - Monica Ali
A new car is not going to change your life.
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 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…
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?
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