Naguib Mahfouz
  • God did not intend religion to be an exercise club.

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

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

  • 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.

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