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

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

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"Like every other good thing in this world, leisure and culture have to be paid for. Fortunately, however, it is not the leisured and the cultured who have to pay."

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"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."

Being

"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."

People

"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."

Love

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

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

History

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

People

"If you want to move people, you look for a point of sensitivity, and in Egypt nothing moves people as much as religion."

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"I was a government employee in the morning and a writer in the evening."

Government

"I was reading a lot of books I admired, and thought that I would like to write something like that someday."

Reading

"The Nobel Prize has given me, for the first time in my life, the feeling that my literature could be appreciated on an international level."

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