Top 47 Quotes by Naguib Mahfouz

Without literature my life would be miserable.

God did not intend religion to be an exercise club.

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.

You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.

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

The writer interweaves a story with his own doubts, questions, and values. That is art.

My wife thought I deserved it, but I always thought the Nobel a Western prize.

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.

Hosni Mubarak... his constitution is not democratic, but he is democratic. We can voice our opinions now. The press is free.