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At age 10, or even 15, it would have meant the world to me to see a Pakistani girl portrayed positively, let alone as a comic book superhero.
- Sabaa Tahir
#Age
#Alone
#Me
#See
#World
Honesty and truth in writing is so important, and I think that YA writing above all is honest, and I think that appeals to anyone of any age.
- Sabaa Tahir
#Age
#Honesty
#Important
#Truth
#Writing
Literature taught me that I wasn't alone, that I could become a writer if I worked at it, that my story mattered. Whether a young reader becomes a writer or not, they deserve to know that their story, whatever it may be, is important.
- Sabaa Tahir
#Alone
#Important
#Literature
#Me
#Young
'The Sword of Shannara' is about two brothers who find themselves on an epic quest to save humanity. It borrows from 'Lord of the Rings' but is still original in its own right. I read it in three days, then reread it, then went out and found every single book Terry Brooks ever wrote, and read all those.
- Sabaa Tahir
#Find
#Humanity
#Own
#Sword
#Three
My readers and I, we have the same taste, and it's awesome. They'll tell me about stuff that I haven't heard of.
- Sabaa Tahir
#About
#Awesome
#Me
#Taste
#Tell
If I refused to get married, my parents would be brokenhearted and confused. Like any child close to her parents, I could not watch them suffer.
- Sabaa Tahir
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#Her
#Like
#Parents
#Watch
People could be really horrible, you know? They would threaten my parents.
- Sabaa Tahir
#Horrible
#Know
#Parents
#People
#Would
What is a nightstand without Mindy Kaling? I dip into her 'Why Not Me?' when I've had a particularly rough day. Her hilarious observations and anecdotes never fail to cheer me up.
- Sabaa Tahir
#Day
#Me
#Never
#Why Not
#Why
You pour your soul into your book, but you never know how it will be received, and when people like your baby, it's a great feeling.
- Sabaa Tahir
#Great
#Know
#People
#Soul
#Will
Anytime you own a small business, it's all you. There is nobody to fall back on.
- Sabaa Tahir
#Back
#Business
#Fall
#Nobody
#Own
As a kid living in an isolated desert town, the most diversity I saw in my media was Claudia Kishi, the Japanese American girl from 'The Baby-Sitters Club.'
- Sabaa Tahir
#American
#Club
#Diversity
#Living
#Media
My mother and father were born and raised in Pakistan, where religion is entrenched in the culture and the culture is explicitly unyielding.
- Sabaa Tahir
#Culture
#Mother And Father
#Religion
Evil comes in many forms, and whether you are male or female, that doesn't matter as much as what lurks in your mind.
- Sabaa Tahir
#Evil
#Matter
#Mind
#Whether
#Your
I grew up feeling voiceless and powerless as a kid. I turned to books - fantasy books in particular - to give me comfort. As I grew up, I realized I could find that sense of power and voice if I simply started writing.
- Sabaa Tahir
#Comfort
#Find
#Me
#Power
#Voice
Like me as a teen - and like many teenagers now - my characters are at a peculiar crossroads in their lives. They desperately seek freedom. But at the same time, they are constantly thwarted.
- Sabaa Tahir
#Freedom
#Me
#Now
#Teen
#Time
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