Quotes by Monica Ali

About Monica Ali:

Monica Ali is a Bangladeshi-born British writer and novelist. In 2003 she was selected as one of the "Best of Young British Novelists" by Granta magazine based on her unpublished manuscript; her debut novel, Brick Lane, was published later that year. It was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. It was adapted as a 2007 film of the same name. She has also published three other novels.
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while she wanted to look neither to her past nor her future, she lived exclusively in both. They had took different paths, but they had journeyed, so she realized, together.

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Apa yang tidak kuketahui-saat masih muda dulu-ada dua jenis cinta. Jenis yang bermula begitu dahsyatnya dan pelan-pelan menghilang, yang terasa seperti tak akan pernah habis lalu suatu hari tahu-tahu ludes. Lalu ada jenis yang tadinya tidak disadari,...

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If you think you are powerless, then you are

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The thought of writing was always pleasant, but the process was painful

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Spreading rumours is our national past time

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The thing about getting older is that you don't need everything to be possible any more, you just need things to be certain.

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They were both lost in cities that would not pause even to shrug

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All the while, when Nazneen turned to her prayers and tried to empty her mind and accept each new thing with grace or indifference, Chanu worked his own method. He was looking for the same essential thing. But he thought he could grab it from the out...

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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.

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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 rid of all those internal censors that we adults have, the things that say, 'Don't go there, that's no...

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People always want to identify a writer with their protagonist.

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I always try to create conflict and drama in my books; it's the engine of the novel.

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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 by a compulsion to start writing.

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I wish I got a lie-in on Saturday mornings but I never do.

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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 there's always a period when the book comes out and you have to lift your head and venture out.

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I was always an outsider, always standing outside, observing and trying to figure things out. Which is exactly what you need to do as a writer, I suppose.

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Chanu spoke loudly, he weighed his words like gold and threw them about like a fool.

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I like Beryl Bainbridge a great deal, and she is a writer who absolutely demands to be read a second, third, and fourth time. I admire her great courage in leaving so much unsaid and asking the reader to really engage her brain.

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A new car is not going to change your life.

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Character is always my driving force. And to tell a good story and to provide an entertaining read.

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Author Bio

  • NameMonica Ali
  • DescriptionA writer of Bangladeshi descent. Born in Bangladesh and moved to England.
  • BornOctober 20, 1967
  • CountryUnited Kingdom
  • ProfessionWriter; Novelist