Hassan Blasim Quotes About Writing

Quotes about: Writing

• I began writing and became attached to writing at an early age. I began by writing poetry and experimenting with dialogues: modest plays, in other words. I also used to describe at great length the way people in the area lived.

  Hassan Blasim

  Writing, Play, People

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• I still write in literary Arabic but I try to rid it of the rhetoric, the symbolism, and the stuff that ordinary people don't understand.

  Hassan Blasim

  Writing, Symbolism, People

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• My stories were translated and had many reviews before I had an interview with any international or Arab newspaper. If the stories hadn't succeeded, you wouldn't have asked me my position on Arab festivals and I wouldn't have been interested in the festivals anyway, because I would be in seclusion, writing.

  Hassan Blasim

  Writing, Would Be, Stories

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

• I'm not much interested in prizes, whether from the Arab world or from the Western world. Writing is a very difficult process and I want to continue my work.

  Hassan Blasim

  Writing, World, Want

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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