Porochista Khakpour quotes

I like ghosts as a metaphor for the outsider. I wish they were real; that would be my preferred afterlife plan. I'd love to observe and haunt with little involvement-I guess that's what being a writer is. (Porochista Khakpour)

When I first started writing, it was much more important for me to appeal to academic audiences or an imagined high-art literary audience. The older I get, the more important it is for me to communicate with everyone and anyone. Right now to me, America is in a crisis of constant misunderstandings. Some of it is willful ignorance, but some of it is not willful and it requires people to explain things...

Porochista Khakpour

Porochista Khakpour

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Occupation: American Novelist
Born: January 17, 1978
Quotes count: 2
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