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Rumaan Alam - From the Advice category:
Parenting advice is mostly useless because every family is uniquely its own; artistic advice is mostly useless because every artist works in their own way. Thus, figuring out how to balance the two has an intense specificity. (Rumaan Alam)
Rumaan Alam - From the Blocks category:
Writer's block is a fiction. (Rumaan Alam)
Rumaan Alam - From the Books category:
You can't control what's going to happen to the book you're about to publish. (Rumaan Alam)
Rumaan Alam - From the Children category:
To be five years old is to be surprised by life. I'm amused by my children's awe at quotidian things - a toy helicopter, a bubble bath, the visible tentacles on a plate of calamari. And I'm envious of their ability to attain something I often can't: a state of transcendence induced by art. (Rumaan Alam)
Rumaan Alam - From the Critics category:
A writer cannot be judged for his project, only its execution. (Rumaan Alam)
Rumaan Alam - From the Deception category:
Fiction is just lying. (Rumaan Alam)
Rumaan Alam - From the Fantasy category:
I love fiction's ability to allow me to inhabit a wholly different life. (Rumaan Alam)
Rumaan Alam - From the Fashion category:
Fashion is about fantasy. (Rumaan Alam)
Rumaan Alam - From the Freedom category:
I don't have a Winslow Homer or a Renoir, but I do have the liberty to live as I like. (Rumaan Alam)
Rumaan Alam - From the Importance category:
It's important to have other pursuits beyond my own fiction - to have a thing that I can do that enriches my understanding of the world instead of just about my own invented worlds. (Rumaan Alam)
Rumaan Alam - From the Observation category:
A tether or a perspective of what's happening in the world that has to do with other people's work is really useful. (Rumaan Alam)
Rumaan Alam - From the Obsession category:
I am a binge reader, with a tendency to throw myself at a writer, immerse myself in their work. (Rumaan Alam)
Rumaan Alam - From the Repetition category:
Form ossifies into genre through repetition. (Rumaan Alam)
Rumaan Alam - From the Taste category:
Every sense has the power to transport us through time, but it's taste I find the most mysterious, and writing about it often results in tortured metaphors. (Rumaan Alam)
Rumaan Alam - From the Time category:
Time is a finite resource. (Rumaan Alam)
Rumaan Alam - From the Work category:
Nothing is ever ideal. You have to work all the same. (Rumaan Alam)
Rumaan Alam - From the Writing category:
Writing takes gall. I like to think that's true even for writers with several books under their belt, writers who have been doing it for years. It takes something - guts, gumption, self-delusion - to ask for a reader's time when we all know there's nothing new under the sun; that it's all been said, or written, before. (Rumaan Alam)
Rumaan Alam - From the Writing category:
I really enjoy writing about books, and sometimes I write about music and film. (Rumaan Alam)
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