In my early 30s, I started to realise I was avoiding something on a personal level, but also as a writer. I was in denial about who I was, and was trying to be someone who I was not.
Ayad AkhtarThe Quran is many different things, and we also have to see the Quran almost as a secondary source commenting on the Old Testament.
Ayad AkhtarI think that literary forms are losing their capacity to connect people to issues, to the experiences that feel most meaningful to them.
Ayad AkhtarI don't know what it's like to be Jewish, but I suspect there is some aspect of that: being Jewish is the thing that bonds you as opposed to being Jewish from Poland, or Jewish from Hungary.
Ayad Akhtar