Naguib Mahfouz Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)
Naguib Mahfouz quotes and sayings page 2 (deceased novelist born on Dec 11, 1911). Here's quote # 11 through 20 out of the 47 we have for him.
“My wife thought I deserved it, but I always thought the Nobel a Western prize.”
“If we reject science, we reject the common man.”
“We used the Western style to express our own themes and stories. But don't forget that our heritage includes The Thousand and One Nights.”
“I was a government employee in the morning and a writer in the evening.”
“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.”
“I didn't make any money from my writing until much later. I published about 80 stories for nothing. I spent on literature.”
“We are passing through a very sensitive time, and on the whole, this country is facing very big problems.”
“An allegory is not meant to be taken literally. There is a great lack of comprehension on the part of some readers.”
“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.”
“In Egypt today most people are concerned with getting bread to eat. Only some of the educated understand how democracy works.”
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