Readers Don't Work For Writers. They Work

For Me, Language Is About The Impossibility Of Communicating What We Precisely Wish To Communicate And This Gorgeous Attempt That We Make To Do That Anyway. I Love That We Will Never Say Exactly What We Mean, But We Will Forever Keep Trying.

Islam Is Not A Race, Yet Islamophobia Partakes Of Racist Characteristics.

Growing Up In Pakistan In The 1980s, I Lived In The Shadow Of A Tyrannical State.

I Don't Listen To Music When I Write. I Need Silence So I Can Hear The Sound Of The Words.

Only In Novels Can We Take Another Human Being Into Our Head And Create Something Jointly.