Naguib Mahfouz Quotes About Writing

Quotes about: Writing

• I started writing while I was a little boy. Maybe it's because I was reading a lot of books I admired, and thought that I would like to write something like that someday. Also, my love for good writing pushed me.

  Naguib Mahfouz

  Book, Reading, Writing

  FaceBook post by Naguib Mahfouz from Oct 14, 2012

• When you spend time with your friends, what do you talk about? Those things which made an impression on you that day, that week ... I write stories the same way. Events at home, in school, at work, in the street, these are the bases for a story. Some experiences leave such a deep impression that instead of talking about them at the club I work them into a novel.

  Naguib Mahfouz

  Writing, School, Home

  FaceBook post by Naguib Mahfouz from Jan 01, 2013

• Writing is for men who can think and feel, not mindless sensation seekers out of nightclubs and bars. But these are bad times. We are condemned to work with upstarts, clowns who no doubt got their training in a circus and then turned to journalism as the appropriate place to display their tricks.

  Naguib Mahfouz

  Writing, Men, Thinking

• 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

• 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

• 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

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