- Childhood
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Moving
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the mess of moving from place to place, I skipped two grades in the space of one year.
- Grandfather
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- Nov 07, 2020
For me it was a lot harder to come to terms with the death of my grandfather than it was to come to terms with what's happened to the former Yugoslavia.
- Grandfather
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- Nov 07, 2020
My grandfather and I were very close.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
At the end of the day, it's about the reader's attachment to and belief in the magical elements that make or break magical realism.
- Own
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- Nov 07, 2020
A family has its own rituals and its own superstitions.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was eight years old, I wrote a paragraph-long short story about a goat on my mother's hundred-pound, black-and-white-screen laptop. The story came about largely because I liked the way the word 'goat' looked on the page, but I decided then and there that I wanted to be a writer. That desire never changed.
- Changes
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- Nov 07, 2020
The best fiction stays with you and changes you.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
My family lived in Egypt from 1993 to 1996.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My road to publishing actually came through a colleague who connected me to my agent, and the faculty at Cornell was very supportive.
- Attempting
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- Nov 07, 2020
Being taken seriously, for a young writer, is a wonderful form of encouragement, but at the same time, I don't think one should ever feel like attempting a kind of artistic endeavor is beyond your scope just because of age or inexperience.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
In terms of people that I know, my grandmother and my mother are huge influences on my writing life because they are both massively supportive and always have been of my career.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
What inspires me most to write is the act of traveling.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I hit a block, regardless of what I am writing, what the subject matter is, or what's going on in the plot, I go back and I read Pablo Neruda's poetry. I don't actually speak Spanish, so I read it translation. But I always go back to Neruda. I don't know why, but it calms me, calms my brain.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020