If you go through any culture that has had wars, go to the bomb shelters, and you'll hear some amazing stories. Yes, it's a necessary thing that we actually both distract ourselves and it's a way to bond.
From Rabih Alameddine
I couldn't tell the truth if my life depended on it.
I always say show me a storyteller who doesn't embellish, and I'll show you a bad one.
I loved problems on paper, and I was good at math, but I was a mechanical engineer, and I never understood - or cared to - how a car worked.
Nobody ever said I'm a simple personality.
Every writer uses his own way to motivate oneself.
When I wrote my first book, 'Koolaids,' I felt rejected and not wanted.
Nobody ever calls me a soccer-playing writer, even though I play soccer and it's part of who I am.
I allegedly am an outsider writer, so I write from the perspective of somebody who doesn't completely fit in. But at the same time, I can state the fact that I don't know of any good writer who is not an outsider writer.
As teenagers, a lot of us just did not want much to do with Arabic culture - we looked to the West.
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