Naguib Mahfouz Quotes
Today's interpretations of religion are often backward and contradict the needs of civilization.
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.
We are passing through a very sensitive time, and on the whole, this country is facing very big problems.
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.
Winning Nobel imposed on me a lifestyle to which I am not used and which I would not have preferred.
Without literature my life would be miserable.
You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.
