- Diversity
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Alone
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- Nov 07, 2020
At age 10, or even 15, it would have meant the world to me to see a Pakistani girl portrayed positively, let alone as a comic book superhero.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I asked myself what I'd want to see in a comic about a Pakistani superhero, the first word that came to mind was 'relatable.'
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up in an isolated town, out in the middle of the Mojave Desert in the middle of a naval base. My family was one of the only South Asian families in this town. We felt it. We knew.
- Isolation
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- Nov 07, 2020
The way I felt growing up, which was like an outcast - I was weird, I was a nerd, I read fantasy books - I think a lot of fantasy book readers and a lot of readers and writers in general have that experience of isolation.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like to write when things are calm - and when I'm not worried about my well-being, the well-being of those I love.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love my characters like family and cannot wait to share more of their story with readers.
- Childhood
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents worked harder than anyone I have ever met. They had so many businesses. There was the motel, but throughout my childhood, they also had a drive-through dairy, a gas station, a clothing store, a computer reselling business.
- Fall
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- Nov 07, 2020
Anytime you own a small business, it's all you. There is nobody to fall back on.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
My dad was very strict. He was absolutely the Tiger Dad. You know, 'You got a 98% on this test? Why didn't you get 100?' That was normal life for my brothers and I.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I went to college, it was so easy. And I worked two jobs while I was in school all the way through; I put myself through school. But working and studying was easy for me because I had worked so hard in high school, studying all the time. Taking only three classes and then working was an easy life in comparison.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
Literature taught me that I wasn't alone, that I could become a writer if I worked at it, that my story mattered. Whether a young reader becomes a writer or not, they deserve to know that their story, whatever it may be, is important.
- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a teenager, I felt so hemmed in and trapped, both by the place I lived and the expectations others had about school, college, and a future career.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Like me as a teen - and like many teenagers now - my characters are at a peculiar crossroads in their lives. They desperately seek freedom. But at the same time, they are constantly thwarted.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't go on social media with a mercenary intent to promote. That's just wrong. I go to learn, to listen, to have fun, to find people who love what I love and who introduce me to new things. That's where the joy is: in the interactions.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Daughter of Smoke and Bone' is one of my all-time top YA fantasy trilogies, so I was a little nervous about reading 'Strange the Dreamer.' Of course, I shouldn't have been worried because Laini Taylor immediately grabbed me by the proverbial lapels and refused to let me go.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020