"The best lesson that I've learned from my mother is that she just never accepted no for an answer and I think that's something that has stayed with me."

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I love a lot of American writers, but I think that for the most part the scope of what's accepted as great American writing is very limited. What we have is good, but it's limited. There's not enough engagement with the world. Our literature's not adventurous enough. The influence of MFA writing tends to make things repetitive. The idea that writing can be taught has changed the whole conversation in the U.S.

— Rabih Alameddine