Naguib Mahfouz Quotes About Literature

Quotes about: Literature

• Events at home, at work, in the street - these are the bases for a story.

  Naguib Mahfouz

  Home, Events, Stories

  FaceBook post by Naguib Mahfouz from May 15, 2012

• At my age it is unseemly to be pessimistic.

  Naguib Mahfouz

  Birthday, Age, Pessimistic

• God did not intend religion to be an exercise club.

  Naguib Mahfouz

  Funny, Witty, Humorous

  "The Handbook of Wisdom and Delight". Book by Thorntize, p. 121, 2009.

• The Arab world also won the Nobel with me. I believe that international doors have opened, and that from now on, literate people will consider Arab literature also. We deserve that recognition.

  Naguib Mahfouz

  Believe, Doors, People

  FaceBook post by Naguib Mahfouz from Oct 13, 2015

• I defend both the freedom of expression and society's right to counter it. I must pay the price for differing. It is the natural way of things.

  Naguib Mahfouz

  Pay The Price, Expression, Literature

• I love Sufism as I love beautiful poetry, but it is not the answer. Sufism is like a mirage in the desert. It says to you, come and sit, relax and enjoy yourself for a while.

  Naguib Mahfouz

  Beautiful, Love Yourself, Relax

• Without literature my life would be miserable.

  Naguib Mahfouz

  Hygiene, Would Be, Literature

• If the urge to write should ever leave me, I want that day to be my last.

  Naguib Mahfouz

  Writing, Literature, Want

  FaceBook post by Naguib Mahfouz from Nov 03, 2015

• My countrymen have the right to shake my hand and talk to me if they so wish. Don't forget that their support and their reading of my works is what brought me the Nobel prize.

  Naguib Mahfouz

  Book, Reading, Hands

• We are passing through a very sensitive time, and on the whole, this country is facing very big problems.

  Naguib Mahfouz

  Country, Literature, Problem

• I wake up early in the morning and walk for an hour. If I have something to write, I prefer to write in the morning until midday, and in the afternoon, I eat.

  Naguib Mahfouz

  Morning, Writing, Up Early

• The Koran and the laws of all civilized nations legislate against the vilification of religions.

  Naguib Mahfouz

  Law, Civilized Nations, Literature

• I thought they would never select an Eastern writer for the Nobel. I was surprised.

  Naguib Mahfouz

  Literature, Select, Nobel

• In Egypt today most people are concerned with getting bread to eat. Only some of the educated understand how democracy works.

  Naguib Mahfouz

  Egypt, People, Democracy

• We are like a woman with a difficult pregnancy. We have to rebuild the social classes in Egypt, and we must change the way things were.

  Naguib Mahfouz

  Pregnancy, Egypt, Class

• According to Islamic principles, when a man is accused of heresy, he is given the choice between repentance and punishment.

  Naguib Mahfouz

  Islamic, Men, Choices

  FaceBook post by Naguib Mahfouz from Jul 04, 2012

• As the tension eases, we must look in the direction of agriculture, industry and education as our final goals, and toward democracy under Mr Mubarak.

  Naguib Mahfouz

  Agriculture, Goal, Democracy

• History is full of people who went to prison or were burned at the stake for proclaiming their ideas. Society has always defended itself.

  Naguib Mahfouz

  Ideas, People, Literature

  FaceBook post by Naguib Mahfouz from Jun 22, 2011

• I accepted the interviews and encounters that had to be held with the media, but I would have preferred to work in peace.

  Naguib Mahfouz

  Media, Encounters, Literature

• I didn't make any money from my writing until much later. I published about 80 stories for nothing. I spent on literature.

  Naguib Mahfouz

  Writing, Stories, Literature

  FaceBook post by Naguib Mahfouz from Apr 12, 2013

• My wife thought I deserved it, but I always thought the Nobel a Western prize.

  Naguib Mahfouz

  Wife, Literature, Nobel

• I've never worked in politics, never been a member of an official committee or a political party.

  Naguib Mahfouz

  Party, Sea, Political

• Winning Nobel imposed on me a lifestyle to which I am not used and which I would not have preferred.

  Naguib Mahfouz

  Winning, Literature, Lifestyle

• It is simply not part of my culture to preserve notes. I have never heard of a writer preserving his early drafts.

  Naguib Mahfouz

  Culture, Literature, Notes

• I was suffering from a peculiar and persistent sense that I was being pursued, and also the conviction that under the political order of the times, our lives had no meaning.

  Naguib Mahfouz

  Order, Political, Suffering

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