Our lives are not what we deserve; they are, let us agree, in many ways deficient.
The west was involved in toppling the Mossadegh government. That ultimately led to the Iranian revolution.
I grew up kissing books and bread.
I think the business of writing a great deal of it is the business of paying attention to your characters, to the world they live in, to the story you have to tell, but just a kind of deep attention and out of that if you pay attention properly the story will tell you what it needs.
What's the use of stories that aren't even true?
He had picked up languages the way most sailors pick up diseases; languages were his gonorrhoea, his syphilis, his scurvy, his ague, his plague.