Quotes by : Zia Haider Rahman

Since when did books ever solve anything? They only raise more questions than they answer, otherwise....

It’s always nice to learn a thing or two from a novel, don’t you think?

No sight better expresses the politics of aid, the dynamics of the West and the developing countries,....

Everyone, he continued, wants his life to stand for something other than what it would, which is about....

How many senators have taken their conception of what America can do from what they’ve seen on the....

Yes, they mean well, but the only good that an absence of malice guarantees is a clear conscience.

That’s another argument for writing: making something that outlasts you.

An exile, said Zafar, is a refugee with a library.

Is that not the Promethean fable, that the fire stolen from the gods will light men their way even while....

Our choices are made, our will flexed, in the teeth of events that overwhelm us and devour us.