Quotes by Monica Ali - Page 1

A new car is not going to change your life.
Monica Ali / Writer
Car
Changing Your Life
New Car
Life Change Your
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I wish I got a lie-in on Saturday mornings but I never do.
Monica Ali / Writer
Morning
Lying
Saturday
Wish
Never Wish I Wish
Mornings
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People always want to identify a writer with their protagonist.
Monica Ali / Writer
People
Protagonists
Want
Identify
Protagonist
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I always try to create conflict and drama in my books; it's the engine of the novel.
Monica Ali / Writer
Book
Conflict
Drama
Trying
Engine
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I'm very eclectic in my music tastes - anything from Nina Simone to Beethoven to Talvin Singh.
Monica Ali / Writer
Eclectic
Eclectic Style
Nina
Taste
Beethoven
Tastes
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Character is always my driving force. And to tell a good story and to provide an entertaining read.
Monica Ali / Writer
Driving Force
Entertaining
Good Story
Good Character Always
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If the culture is so all pervasive that you can’t think outside of it, how are you making genuine choices?
Monica Ali / Writer
Choices
Culture
Thinking
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I rarely get a moment to myself, but I love the way that my agenda is dictated by the children, not my work.
Monica Ali / Writer
Agendas
Children
Way
Love Work Myself
Dictated
Rarely
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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.
Monica Ali / Writer
Hung
Mass
People
Thinking
Unhappiness
Want
Me People Way
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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.
Monica Ali / Writer
Certain
Getting Older
Needs
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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.
Monica Ali / Writer
Needs
Observing
Outsiders
Standing
Trying
Writer
Exactly
Exactly What
Figure
Suppose
Outside
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Outside of interviews, I spend very little time thinking about myself. I spend time thinking about my writing and my children and other things that are pertinent.
Monica Ali / Writer
Little Time
Pertinent
Time Myself Thinking
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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.
Monica Ali / Writer
Children
Compulsion
Holiday
Writing
Brick
Lane
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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.
Monica Ali / Writer
Running
Assuming
Life Is
Situation
Steady
Trajectory
Up And Down
Life Always Your
Assume
Expect
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I get really excited if I think I'm going to introduce somebody to a writer they haven't found before and I think they'll love. My favorite books to get as gifts are any that the giver is messianic about.
Monica Ali / Writer
Book
Excited
Thinking
Gifts
Introduce
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Writing is a deeply immersive experience. When the words are flying, the house could be burgled and I wouldn’t notice. I have a low boredom threshold and I like intensity – writing is a way of escaping the quotidian.
Monica Ali / Writer
Boredom
Escaping
Writing
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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.
Monica Ali / Writer
Courage
Admire
Asking
Brain
Fourth
Leaving
Reader
Unsaid
Absolutely
Writer
Engage
Great Deal
Third
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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.
Monica Ali / Writer
Jobs
Book
Real
Venture
Cycle
Imagining
Lift
Real Job
Researching
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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 not allowed.
Monica Ali / Writer
Kids
Play
Writing
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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 not allowed.'
Monica Ali / Writer
Beaten
Creative
Curious
Adult
Naturally
Allowed
Internal
Inventive
Rid
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People don't get involved with local charities or politics because they think it's hard to make a difference and the problem feels overwhelming. But I believe that if all I've time for this year is to write one letter to the local council, it's still worth doing.
Monica Ali / Writer
Council
Overwhelming
Charities
Letter
Local
Make A Difference
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Some writers are more natural public performers than others; personally I find it quite strange giving interviews. But everyone has parts of their job that they like more than others. You can't complain if you get to do what you love doing most of the time, can you?
Monica Ali / Writer
Jobs
Complaining
Giving
Interviews
Performers
What You Love
Love Time Doing
Complain
Do What You Love
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She touched his hand for the last time. "Oh, Karim, that we have already done. But always there was a problem between us. How can I explain? I wasn't me, and you weren't you. From the very beginning to the very end, we didn't see things. What we did--we made each other up." p. 382
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Done
Hands
Lasts
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Sometimes I look back and I am shocked. Everyday of my life I have prepared for success, worked for it, waited for it, and you don't notice how the days pass until nearly a lifetime is finished. Then it hits you--the thing you have been waiting for has already gone by. And it was going in the other direction. It's like I've been waiting on the wrong side of the road for a bus that was already full." p. 265
Monica Ali / Writer
Everyday
Looks
Waiting
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