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Elliott Colla quotes: Arabs don't do crime fiction. I read crime fiction and I read Arabic literature, and I wish this was a novel I could have read in Arabic.

Arabs don't do crime fiction. I read crime fiction and I read Arabic literature, and I wish this was a novel I could have read in Arabic.

Elliott Colla quotes: The corruption in Iraq has nothing to do with ideas - it has to do with the regime and institutional structures and power.

The corruption in Iraq has nothing to do with ideas - it has to do with the regime and institutional structures and power.

Elliott Colla quotes: The one thing that is braver each day than I is my sense of self-preservation It moves not, and stands not, unless it is driven by something

The one thing that is braver each day than I is my sense of self-preservation It moves not, and stands not, unless it is driven by something

Elliott Colla quotes: Academic writing you have to get right. Fiction you have to get plausible. And there's a world of difference.

Academic writing you have to get right. Fiction you have to get plausible. And there's a world of difference.

Elliott Colla quotes: Noir is where the clarity of moral divisions break down, the black and whites turn into grays.

Noir is where the clarity of moral divisions break down, the black and whites turn into grays.

Elliott Colla quotes: Once you have the first draft it's living, and you can coax it to grow and trim it and reshape it and so on. But get that first draft.

Once you have the first draft it's living, and you can coax it to grow and trim it and reshape it and so on. But get that first draft.

Elliott Colla quotes: There's actually a lot of information on a lot of people and that is a major achievement of a police state.

There's actually a lot of information on a lot of people and that is a major achievement of a police state.

Elliott Colla quotes: It does not take much to imagine the humanity of people you don't know.

It does not take much to imagine the humanity of people you don't know.

Elliott Colla quotes: I think if I'd gone to an MFA program and learned that, it would have been money well spent. But translation has been that for me.

I think if I'd gone to an MFA program and learned that, it would have been money well spent. But translation has been that for me.

Elliott Colla quotes: When you're writing your own fiction, you don't have to ride two horses.

When you're writing your own fiction, you don't have to ride two horses.