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" As the tension eases, we must look in the direction of agriculture, industry and education as our final goals, and toward democracy under Mr Mubarak. "

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" 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 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. "

" Today's interpretations of religion are often backward and contradict the needs of civilization. "

" 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. "

" It is simply not part of my culture to preserve notes. I have never heard of a writer preserving his early drafts. "

" The criminal is trying to solve his immediate problems. "

" I defend both the freedom of expression and society's right to counter it. I must pay the price for differing. It is the natural way of things. "

" There are no heroes in most of my stories. I look at our society with a critical eye and find nothing extraordinary in the people I see. "

" I believe society has a right to defend itself, just as the individual has the right to attack that with which he disagrees. "

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

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

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

" I was suffering from a peculiar and persistent sense that I was being pursued, and also the conviction that under the political order of the times, our lives had no meaning. "

" Sadat made us feel more secure. "

" 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. "

" The Koran and the laws of all civilized nations legislate against the vilification of religions. "

" 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. "

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

" An allegory is not meant to be taken literally. There is a great lack of comprehension on the part of some readers. "

" God did not intend religion to be an exercise club. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" At my age it is unseemly to be pessimistic. "

" The Arab world also won the Nobel with me. I believe that international doors have opened, and that from now on, literate people will consider Arab literature also. We deserve that recognition. "

" I was reading a lot of books I admired, and thought that I would like to write something like that someday. "

" If we reject science, we reject the common man. "

" We are like a woman with a difficult pregnancy. We have to rebuild the social classes in Egypt, and we must change the way things were. "