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“So many things you promise yourself you won't get used to, and then you do.”

Kamila Shamsie book Burnt Shadows

Source: Burnt Shadows

“I don’t have much time for the idea that art is some languorous thing on the sidelines, and that you have to wait 50 years before you address a subject…”

Kamila Shamsie

Source: On writing about a topic even if it is recent in “Kamila Shamsie: ‘Being a UK citizen makes me feel more able to take part in the conversation’” https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/aug/27/kamila-shamsie-home-fire-man-booker-longlisted-author-interview in The Guardian (2017 Aug 27)

Idea , Time , Waiting , Art

“The thing you know in the abstract, but which you have to see, is the vastness of the place and how little relationship one side of it has to another. Mostly, the landscape is just unbelievably beautiful. You do a lot of looking and not that much thinking.”

Kamila Shamsie

Source: On living and travelling throughout the United States in “THE SRB INTERVIEW: Kamila Shamsie” https://www.scottishreviewofbooks.org/2018/08/the-srb-interview-kamila-shamsie/ in The Scottish Review of Books (2018 Aug 11)

Beauty , Thinking