Insults Are The Business Of The Court.

When You Spend Time With Your Friends, What Do You Talk About? Those Things Which Made An Impression On You That Day, That Week ... I Write Stories The Same Way. Events At Home, In School, At Work, In The Street, These Are The Bases For A Story. Some Experiences Leave Such A Deep Impression That Instead Of Talking About Them At The Club I Work Them Into A Novel.

Only The Poor Are Handicapped By Honor.

One Effect That The Nobel Prize Seems To Have Had Is That More Arabic Literary Works Have Been Translated Into Other Languages.

The Writer Interweaves A Story With His Own Doubts, Questions, And Values. That Is Art.

I Reject Any Path Which Rejects Life, But I Can't Help Loving Sufism Because It Sounds So Beautiful. It Gives Relief In The Midst Of Battle.