Quotes About Monica Ali

My books are often shelved around those of Chinua Achebe and Margaret Atwood, or Chimamanda Adichie and Monica Ali. All of this depends, of course, on the bookstore and how conversant the shelf stocker is with the alphabet.

A pair of schoolchildren,pale as rice and loud as peacocks,cut over the road and hurtled down a side street,galloping with joy or else with terror (p. 55).

The sari's rose-pink border was fringed with a layer of mud. Patches of sweat darkened the underarms of her choli. Trust Ma to dress inappropriately for every occasion or activity.

He came as a man of science, to observe a rare specimen: unhappiness greater than his own.

I like Beryl Bainbridge a great deal, and she is a writer who absolutely demands to be read a second, third, and fourth time. I admire her great courage in leaving so much unsaid and asking the reader to really engage her brain.

It's not very often that a writer's words can punch through the paper and throttle the lifeblood out of you, but Tony's words manage to do just that, his experiences are so powerful and emotional and full of fucking heart that it pales everybody else's work into insignificance. Tony O'Neill will be remembered in years to come, when Monica Ali and Zadie Smith are nothing but footnotes." —StraightfromtheFridge.com

The thought of writing was always pleasant, but the process was painful

The thought of writing was always pleasant, but the process was painful

An hour and forty-five minutes before Nazneen's life began-began as it would proceed for quite some time, that is to say uncertainly-her mother, Rupban, felt an iron fist squeeze her belly.