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Top 25 Monica Ali Quotes (2025 Update)

Monica Ali Quote: “I don’t want to get hung up on what ‘people,’ that nebulous mass, think about me. That’s the way to unhappiness, I think.”

1. “I don’t want to get hung up on what ‘people,’ that nebulous mass, think about me. That’s the way to unhappiness, I think.”

Monica Ali Quote: “I was always an outsider, always standing outside, observing and trying to figure things out. Which is exactly what you need to do as a writer, I suppose.”

2. “I was always an outsider, always standing outside, observing and trying to figure things out. Which is exactly what you need to do as a writer, I suppose.”

Monica Ali Quote: “I always try to create conflict and drama in my books; it’s the engine of the novel.”

3. “I always try to create conflict and drama in my books; it’s the engine of the novel.”

Monica Ali Quote: “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.”

4. “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.”

Monica Ali Quote: “A new car is not going to change your life.”

5. “A new car is not going to change your life.”

Monica Ali Quote: “Writing is a deeply immersive experience. When the words are flying, the house could be burgled and I wouldn’t notice. I have a low boredom threshold and I like intensity – writing is a way of escaping the quotidian.”

6. “Writing is a deeply immersive experience. When the words are flying, the house could be burgled and I wouldn’t notice. I have a low boredom threshold and I like intensity – writing is a way of escaping the quotidian.”

Monica Ali Quote: “I rarely get a moment to myself, but I love the way that my agenda is dictated by the children, not my work.”

7. “I rarely get a moment to myself, but I love the way that my agenda is dictated by the children, not my work.”

Monica Ali Quote: “Suddenly, she was gripped by the idea that if she changed her clothes her entire life would change as well.”

8. “Suddenly, she was gripped by the idea that if she changed her clothes her entire life would change as well.”

Monica Ali Quote: “The thing about getting older is that you don’t need everything to be possible any more, you just need things to be certain.”

9. “The thing about getting older is that you don’t need everything to be possible any more, you just need things to be certain.”

Monica Ali Quote: “She touched his hand for the last time. “Oh, Karim, that we have already done. But always there was a problem between us. How can I explain? I wasn’t me, and you weren’t you. From the very beginning to the very end, we didn’t see things. What we did – we made each other up.” p. 382.”

10. “She touched his hand for the last time. “Oh, Karim, that we have already done. But always there was a problem between us. How can I explain? I wasn’t me, and you weren’t you. From the very beginning to the very end, we didn’t see things. What we did – we made each other up.” p. 382.”

Monica Ali Quote: “If the culture is so all pervasive that you can’t think outside of it, how are you making genuine choices?”

11. “If the culture is so all pervasive that you can’t think outside of it, how are you making genuine choices?”

Monica Ali Quote: “I wish I got a lie-in on Saturday mornings but I never do.”

12. “I wish I got a lie-in on Saturday mornings but I never do.”

Monica Ali Quote: “We open a book, we turn a newspaper page, we allow the television and the radio to come into our homes. All the things we are told every day – are the true?”

13. “We open a book, we turn a newspaper page, we allow the television and the radio to come into our homes. All the things we are told every day – are the true?”

Monica Ali Quote: “I started writing ‘Brick Lane’ when my children were two years and five months old. We were on holiday in the north of England when I was overtaken by a compulsion to start writing.”

14. “I started writing ‘Brick Lane’ when my children were two years and five months old. We were on holiday in the north of England when I was overtaken by a compulsion to start writing.”

Monica Ali Quote: “People always want to identify a writer with their protagonist.”

15. “People always want to identify a writer with their protagonist.”

Monica Ali Quote: “When you have fallen low, she told herself, what hurts is pretending you are high.”

16. “When you have fallen low, she told herself, what hurts is pretending you are high.”

Monica Ali Quote: “Her need for love is as wide as that sky out there and as impossible for an unwinged mortal to fulfill.”

17. “Her need for love is as wide as that sky out there and as impossible for an unwinged mortal to fulfill.”

Monica Ali Quote: “You know how if you’re born in a certain situation you always expect your life to run on a steady trajectory? I’ve never really had a sense of that. I assume that life is going to go up and down.”

18. “You know how if you’re born in a certain situation you always expect your life to run on a steady trajectory? I’ve never really had a sense of that. I assume that life is going to go up and down.”

Monica Ali Quote: “I don’t look down on them, but what can you do? If a man has only ever driven a rickshaw and never in his life held a book in his hand, then what can you expect from him?”

19. “I don’t look down on them, but what can you do? If a man has only ever driven a rickshaw and never in his life held a book in his hand, then what can you expect from him?”

Monica Ali Quote: “I get really excited if I think I’m going to introduce somebody to a writer they haven’t found before and I think they’ll love. My favorite books to get as gifts are any that the giver is messianic about.”

20. “I get really excited if I think I’m going to introduce somebody to a writer they haven’t found before and I think they’ll love. My favorite books to get as gifts are any that the giver is messianic about.”

Monica Ali Quote: “I guess there’s a sort of cycle with writing books. There’s all the researching and then the imagining and writing – which is the real job – and then there’s always a period when the book comes out and you have to lift your head and venture out.”

21. “I guess there’s a sort of cycle with writing books. There’s all the researching and then the imagining and writing – which is the real job – and then there’s always a period when the book comes out and you have to lift your head and venture out.”

Monica Ali Quote: “I’m very eclectic in my music tastes – anything from Nina Simone to Beethoven to Talvin Singh.”

22. “I’m very eclectic in my music tastes – anything from Nina Simone to Beethoven to Talvin Singh.”

Monica Ali Quote: “He would not come again. This was good. No. This was bad. At least it was an end.”

23. “He would not come again. This was good. No. This was bad. At least it was an end.”

Monica Ali Quote: “Some writers are more natural public performers than others; personally I find it quite strange giving interviews. But everyone has parts of their job that they like more than others. You can’t complain if you get to do what you love doing most of the time, can you?”

24. “Some writers are more natural public performers than others; personally I find it quite strange giving interviews. But everyone has parts of their job that they like more than others. You can’t complain if you get to do what you love doing most of the time, can you?”

Monica Ali Quote: “In the rainy season, back home, when the land had given way to water and the buffaloes grew webbed feet, when the hens took to the roofs, when marooned goats teetered on minuscule islands, when the women splashed across on the raised walkway to the cooking hut and found they could no longer kindle a dung-and-husk fire and looked to their reserves, when the rain rang louder than cow bells, rice was the means, the giver of life.”

25. “In the rainy season, back home, when the land had given way to water and the buffaloes grew webbed feet, when the hens took to the roofs, when marooned goats teetered on minuscule islands, when the women splashed across on the raised walkway to the cooking hut and found they could no longer kindle a dung-and-husk fire and looked to their reserves, when the rain rang louder than cow bells, rice was the means, the giver of life.”

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