“Once I became historically aware, I realized there are these formative moments of history tied around tragedy and disaster and sacrifice, that led people to survive and take stock and move on with some kind of notion of betterment.” PeopleKindMomentsMovingSacrificeTragedyNotionI RealizedDisasterTiedBetterment Author:Fred D'Aguiar
“People seem very comfortable having a kind of Cheesecake Factory-type of life.” PeopleKindSeemsTypeComfortableFactoriesCheesecake Author:Fred D'Aguiar
“People were always hungry, bullied, afraid, paranoid - so I just thought I'd show that in the novel in a kind of suffocating way.” PeopleWayKindShowsNovelHungryParanoidBulliedSuffocating Author:Fred D'Aguiar
“To have a young person speak back, to hand him the microphone for his first-person utterances, you'd have to have an imagined architecture, otherwise people would say you're putting words in their mouths.” PeopleFirstsPersonsHandsYoungSpeakMouthsArchitectureFirst PersonMicrophonesUtteranceWise People Author:Fred D'Aguiar
“People who are suffering have to visualize ways out of tragedy to actually get out of it.” PeopleWaySufferingTragedy Author:Fred D'Aguiar
