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

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

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"There are a number of things wrong with Washington. One of them is that everyone is too far from home."

Dwight D. Eisenhower, American President

Home, Washington, Wrong

"A house isn't a home without the ineffable contentment of a cat with its tail folded about its feet. A cat gives mystery, charm, suggestion."

L. M. Montgomery, Canadian Author

Home, Comfort, Cats, Mystery

"My tent doesn't look like much but, as an estate agent might say, "It is air-conditioned and has exceptional location."

Fennel Hudson, British Author

Home, Comfort, Location, Life

"Home is where they want you to stay longer."

Stephen King, American Author

Home, Belonging, Truth, Attachment

"A house from which nobody ever went away without feeling better in some way. A house in which there was always laughter."

L. M. Montgomery, Canadian Author

Home, Joy, Kindness, Laughter

"Laura Ingalls Wilder said, "Home is the nicest place there is."

Kenneth Eade, American Author

Home, Comfort, Safety, Belonging

"The instruction we find in books is like fire. We fetch it from our neighbours, kindle it at home, communicate it to others, and it becomes the property of all."

Voltaire, French Writer

Home, Books, Fire, Property

"He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German Poet

Home, Peace

"The heart of the home beats in the kitchen and a healthy one beats three times a day."

Bangambiki Habyarimana, Rwandan Author

Home, Heart, Kitchen, Health

"There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort."

Jane Austen, British Writer

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Explore more quotes by Naguib Mahfouz

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

Reading, Thought, Books

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

People, Democracy, Today

"It's clearly more important to treat one's fellow man well than to be always praying and fasting and touching one's head to a prayer mat."

Man, Prayer

"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, Thought, Books, Reading

"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, Literature, Now, Will

"Insults are the business of the court."

Business, Court, Insults

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

Peace, Work, Media

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

Autonomy, Day, Want

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

Politics, Committee, Party

"The criminal is trying to solve his immediate problems."

Problems, Trying