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Literature Should Be More Revolutionary Than Revolutions Themselves; Writers Must Find The Means To Continue To Be Critical Of The Negative Elements In The Sociopolitical Reality.

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.

My Wife Thought I Deserved It, But I Always Thought The Nobel A Western Prize.

In Egypt Today Most People Are Concerned With Getting Bread To Eat. Only Some Of The Educated Understand How Democracy Works.