Quotes by Monica Ali

Monica Ali

A new car is not going to change your life.

Car

Changing Your Life

New Car

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

Book

Drama

Trying

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.

People

Thinking

Want

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.

Book

Excited

Thinking

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.

Book

Jobs

Real

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.

Asking

Brain

Leaving

I rarely get a moment to myself, but I love the way that my agenda is dictated by the children, not my work.

Agendas

Children

Way

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.

Children

Holiday

Writing

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.

Needs

Outsiders

Trying

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

Lying

Morning

Wish

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Agendas

Asking

Assuming

Book

Boredom

Brain

Car

Certain

Changing Your Life

Children

Choices

Complaining

Culture

Done

Drama

Eclectic Style

Escaping

Everyday

Excited

Getting Older

Giving

Hands

Holiday

Jobs

Kids

Lasts

Leaving

Life Is

Looks

Lying

Morning

Needs

New Car

Nina

Outsiders

People

Play

Protagonists

Real

Running

Taste

Thinking

Trying

Waiting

Want

Way

Wish

Writing

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Quotes by Monica Ali

Monica Ali

A new car is not going to change your life.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

I rarely get a moment to myself, but I love the way that my agenda is dictated by the children, not my work.

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.

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.

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

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