“Listening to people discussing a novel can be very interesting, if you've read whatever novel is being discussed. No one, it seems, ever says, "This is a great book but I didn't like it." Taking a little time to think about why this might be has been very liberating.” PeopleThinkingBookInterestingNovelListeningVery InterestingLiberatingTime To ThinkGreat Book Author:Zia Haider Rahman
“Until I reached my late teens, there was not enough money for luxuries - a holiday, a car, or a computer. I learned how to program a computer, in fact, by reading a book. I used to write down programs in a notebook and a few years later when we were able to buy a computer, I typed in my programs to see if they worked. They did. I was lucky.” WritingBookEnoughReadingCarLuckyComputerProgramHolidayNotebook Author:Zia Haider Rahman
“The twentieth century saw a professionalization of fiction writing, particularly in its second half and particularly in the Anglo-Saxon world - not so much mainland Europe, for example. This professionalization is a tragedy. Hand in hand with this - and I have no idea what the causal relations are - there has been a rise in the idea of The Author, so that today one often has the impression that what's selling the book is not the book but the author.” WorldWritingBookTodayTragedyRelationImpressionSelling Author:Zia Haider Rahman
