Sabaa Tahir Quotes

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The 'Harry Potter' books had a huge impact on me.

The ‘Harry Potterbooks had a huge impact on me.
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I don’t go on social media with a mercenary intent to promote. That’s just wrong. I go to learn, to listen, to have fun, to find people who love what I love and who introduce me to new things. That’s where the joy is: in the interactions.
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Evil comes in many forms, and whether you are male or female, that doesn’t matter as much as what lurks in your mind.
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I grew up in a small town in the Mojave Desert where conservative Republicans were as common as cacti. Inexplicably, I grew up liberal and a feminist.
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Reading about people who were so truly voiceless and powerless – Liberian child soldiers, Sudanese refugees, and, especially, Kashmiri women whose husbands or sons were imprisoned by the army with no hope of releasemade me think about how I would feel if someone took my brothers from me.
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I grew up raiding my brother‘s comic book stash. I tried to lose myself in fiction.
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I grew up feeling voiceless and powerless as a kid. I turned to books – fantasy books in particular – to give me comfort. As I grew up, I realized I could find that sense of power and voice if I simply started writing.
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I like to write when things are calm – and when I’m not worried about my well-being, the well-being of those I love.
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I love my characters like family and cannot wait to share more of their story with readers.
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When I asked myself what I’d want to see in a comic about a Pakistani superhero, the first word that came to mind was ‘relatable.’
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Young readers can sense when you’re not addressing what’s actually going on.
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Like so many other young South Asians in America, I am the product of two cultures whose conflicting values pull at me with equal urgency. Never have I felt as torn between the two as I do about the question of marriage.
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Like me as a teen – and like many teenagers now – my characters are at a peculiar crossroads in their lives. They desperately seek freedom. But at the same time, they are constantly thwarted.
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I’ve loved mountains since I was a girl, and when I discovered mountaineering fiction after college, I was hooked.
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How far do you go in following orders? So many people use it as an excuse, right? ‘I was following orders.’ But what does that mean?
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It was hard to feel hated as a child.
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My parents worked harder than anyone I have ever met. They had so many businesses. There was the motel, but throughout my childhood, they also had a drive-through dairy, a gas station, a clothing store, a computer reselling business.
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My dad was very strict. He was absolutely the Tiger Dad. You know, ‘You got a 98% on this test? Why didn’t you get 100?’ That was normal life for my brothers and I.
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Whatever the case, oftentimes, for a story to feel complete to me, I need more than one point of view.
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I find booksellers comforting – they’re my people.
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You pour your soul into your book, but you never know how it will be received, and when people like your baby, it’s a great feeling.
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I grew up in an isolated town, out in the middle of the Mojave Desert in the middle of a naval base. My family was one of the only South Asian families in this town. We felt it. We knew.
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Daughter of Smoke and Bone‘ is one of my all-time top YA fantasy trilogies, so I was a little nervous about readingStrange the Dreamer.’ Of course, I shouldn’t have been worried because Laini Taylor immediately grabbed me by the proverbial lapels and refused to let me go.
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People could be really horrible, you know? They would threaten my parents.
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At age 10, or even 15, it would have meant the world to me to see a Pakistani girl portrayed positively, let alone as a comic book superhero.
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My mother and father were born and raised in Pakistan, where religion is entrenched in the culture and the culture is explicitly unyielding.
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I think that YA stories have a lot of heart, and I think that whatever age we are, we connect to them because we sort of see ourselves in them.
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In fantasy and science fiction, world-building is an essential part of the story. But as a reader, I don’t just want descriptions of food, clothing, and places. I want to understand the world to its core, through the eyes of those who live in it.
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When I was a kid, I worked as a clerk at my parent’s motel. From when I was eight or nine, I rented rooms, helped with laundry, folding tons of towels. And then I also worked at my dad’s gas station more as a young adult and as an adult.
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What is a nightstand without Mindy Kaling? I dip into her ‘Why Not Me?’ when I’ve had a particularly rough day. Her hilarious observations and anecdotes never fail to cheer me up.
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