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Layla AlAmmar grew up in Kuwait. She has a Masters in Creative Writing from the University of Edinburgh, and her work has appeared in The Evening Standard, Quail Bell Magazine, The Red Letters St Andrews Prose Journal, and Aesthetica Magazine where she was a finalist for the Creative Writing Award 2014. In 2018, she served as British Council International Writer in Residence at the Small Wonder Short Story Festival. She currently lives in the UK where she's pursuing a PhD in Arab Women's Fiction. ...more

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	Silence Is a Sense 4.04 avg rating — 1,176 ratings — published 2021 — 17 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Pact We Made 3.66 avg rating — 546 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Underground: Tales for London by Ann Bissell (Editor), Matthew Plampin (Contributor), Joanna Shriver (Contributor) 3.17 avg rating — 84 ratings — published 2018 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	ArabLit Quarterly Fall 2020 Cats by Hassân Almohtasib, M Lynx Qualey (editor), Ghada Samman it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2020 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Das Schweigen in mir by Layla AlAmmar (Goodreads Author), Yasemine Dinger (Translator) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Author ~ Text ~ Reader

I’ve always viewed writing as a three-way relationship between author, text, and reader.

The author exists before and beyond the text he creates, bringing to it his personal experience, history, and ideas.

The text exists as a standalone entity, with a myriad of meanings and inferences that can be ascribed to it. Here is the ‘multi-dimensional space’ that Barthes refers to, where multiple meanin

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“strong or weak or good or bad or whatever. It’s a spectrum. It’s always a spectrum.”
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“I want to tell him I love the taste of his words, how they feel rolling around the tongue of my mind’s voice, how they slither down my chest and hum into the caverns of my heart, how they sometimes slide further down and pluck between my legs, where I can no longer distinguish pain from pleasure.”
― Layla AlAmmar, Silence Is a Sense

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“It’s too quiet, but there’s nothing I can do about it. To play music off the laptop would alert her to the fact that I can hear, and that’s not a conversation I’m about to have with anyone. So I sit there, against the wall, and drink the disgusting juice.”
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“And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches toward Bethlehem to be born?”
― William Butler Yeats

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“The more often he feels without acting, the less he will be able ever to act, and, in the long run, the less he will be able to feel.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters

tags: action, deeds, feeling, heart

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“The time has come," the walrus said, "to talk of many things: Of shoes and ships - and sealing wax - of cabbages and kings”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass

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“Indeed the safest road to Hell is the gradual one--the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts,...Your affectionate uncle, Screwtape.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters

tags: compromise, hell, incrementalism

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“Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary,
Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore,”
― Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven and Other Poems

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