Top 47 Quotes by Naguib Mahfouz

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

According to Islamic principles, when a man is accused of heresy, he is given the choice between repentance and punishment.

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.

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

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.

I didn't make any money from my writing until much later. I published about 80 stories for nothing. I spent on literature.

One effect that the Nobel Prize seems to have had is that more Arabic literary works have been translated into other languages.

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

I consider Khomeini's position dangerous. He does not have the right to pass judgment-that is not the Islamic way.

We are passing through a very sensitive time, and on the whole, this country is facing very big problems.