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I get upset about what is taken as great literature and what is cute and exotic.

I read Shakespeare when I was 14 because it's what we were taught.

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In school in Lebanon, we were not allowed to speak Arabic during breaks - it had to be French or English.

There are over 1 million refugees in Lebanon, a country of 4 million people. How do we solve that? I have no idea. What's going on, I really don't know.

In Lebanon, there are completely different opinions and values in one country in terms of religion, modernity, tradition, East and West - which allows for a kind of intellectual development not available anywhere else.

I can easily hold two opposing beliefs at the same time without any problem, which I find - well, mind-expanding, really.

A phoenix, Beirut seems to always pull itself out its ashes, reinvents itself, has been conquered numerous times in its 7,000-year history, yet it survives by both becoming whatever its conquerors wished it to be and retaining its idiosyncratic persona.

'Harat' is actually - it's a Lebanese dialect word. It comes from 'the mapmaker,' somebody who makes a map. And it basically means somebody who tells fibs or exaggerate tales a little bit.

We seem, particularly over here in the West and in America in particular, to have forgotten that we are, in large measures, the story we tell ourselves about ourselves.

I jokingly say if there was one great thing about, you know, the Lebanese Civil War was that it forced me to read.

If you go through any culture that has had wars, go to the bomb shelters, and you'll hear some amazing stories. Yes, it's a necessary thing that we actually both distract ourselves and it's a way to bond.

I couldn't tell the truth if my life depended on it.

I always say show me a storyteller who doesn't embellish, and I'll show you a bad one.

I loved problems on paper, and I was good at math, but I was a mechanical engineer, and I never understood - or cared to - how a car worked.

Nobody ever said I'm a simple personality.

Every writer uses his own way to motivate oneself.

When I wrote my first book, 'Koolaids,' I felt rejected and not wanted.

Nobody ever calls me a soccer-playing writer, even though I play soccer and it's part of who I am.

I allegedly am an outsider writer, so I write from the perspective of somebody who doesn't completely fit in. But at the same time, I can state the fact that I don't know of any good writer who is not...

As teenagers, a lot of us just did not want much to do with Arabic culture - we looked to the West.

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