Top 47 Quotes by Naguib Mahfouz

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.

Sadat made us feel more secure.

We used the Western style to express our own themes and stories. But don't forget that our heritage includes The Thousand and One Nights.

Winning Nobel imposed on me a lifestyle to which I am not used and which I would not have preferred.

My countrymen have the right to shake my hand and talk to me if they so wish. Don't forget that their support and their reading of my works is what brought me the Nobel prize.

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

I thought they would never select an Eastern writer for the Nobel. I was surprised.

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 am practically in the employ of Mr. Nobel. I have to meet everyone he sends my way.

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