top of page
.png){kind=small}
Exlpore more Reading quotes
"As a reader you recognise that feeling when you're lost in a book? You know the one - when whatever's going on around you seems less real than what you're reading and all you want to do is keep going deeper into the story whether it's about being halfway up a mountain in Brazil in 1823 of in love with a man you aren't sure you can trust or fighting a war in the last human outpost, somewhere beyond the moon. Well, if you're writing that book it's real for you too."
"He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule."
"What a vast fertility of pleasure books hold for me! I went in and found the table laden with books. I looked in and sniffed them all. I could not resist carrying this one off and broaching it. I think I could happily live here and read forever."
"Reading for enjoyment won't die altogether, but this Ereader device has the potential to repel those less imaginative from fiction. And that could have an undesirable domino effect."
"Reading takes time, and the glass teat takes too much of it."
"The more you read, the less apt you are to make a fool of yourself with your pen or word processor."
Explore more quotes by Naguib Mahfouz
"History is full of people who went to prison or were burned at the stake for proclaiming their ideas. Society has always defended itself."
"I believe society has a right to defend itself, just as the individual has the right to attack that with which he disagrees."
"I defend both the freedom of expression and society's right to counter it. I must pay the price for differing. It is the natural way of things."
"The Koran and the laws of all civilized nations legislate against the vilification of religions."
"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."
"If you want to move people, you look for a point of sensitivity, and in Egypt nothing moves people as much as religion."
"Today's interpretations of religion are often backward and contradict the needs of civilization."
"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."
"In Egypt today most people are concerned with getting bread to eat. Only some of the educated understand how democracy works."
bottom of page