3 Quotes & Sayings By Amal Elmohtar

Amal El-Mohtar is a writer and translator of fantasy and science fiction. Born and raised in Egypt, Amal moved to the U.S. in 2005 and studied Arabic and Middle Eastern Studies at UCLA. She now lives in New York City Read more

Amal was a finalist for the Hugo Award in 2012 for her short story "The Girl Who Could See Demons." Her work has appeared in Lightspeed Magazine, Tor.com, Goblin Fruit, SFFWorld, Clarkesworld Magazine, Daily Science Fiction, Fantasy Magazine, Strange Horizons, The Book Smugglers, Strange Horizons 10th Anniversary Anthology, Apex Magazine, Apex II: The Singularity Is Near, Apex Magazine , Conjunctions Volume 40 Issue 1 , Intergalactic Medicine Show Volume 6 , Conjunctions Volume 40 Issue 2 , Intergalactic Medicine Show Volume 7 , Conjunctions Volume 40 Issue 3 , Intergalactic Medicine Show Volume 8 , Conjunctions Volume 40 Issue 4

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..we have, each of us, a story that is uniquely ours, a narrative arc that we can walk with purpose once we figure out what it is. It's the opposite to living our lives episodically, where each day is only tangentially connected to the next, where we are ourselves the only constants linking yesterday to tomorrow. There is nothing wrong with that, and I don't want to imply that there is by saying how much this shocked me -- just that it felt so suddenly, painfully right to think that I have tapped into my Long Tale, that I have set my feet on the path I want to walk the rest of my life, and that it is a path of stories and writing and that no matter how many oceans I cross or how transient I feel in any given place, I am still on my Tale's Road, because having tapped it, having found it, the following is inevitable.. Amal ElMohtar
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There were some problems only coffee and ice cream could fix. Amal ElMohtar