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

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

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" According to Islamic principles, when a man is accused of heresy, he is given the choice between repentance and punishment. "

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" I accepted the interviews and encounters that had to be held with the media, but I would have preferred to work in peace. "

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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. "

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

" I've never worked in politics, never been a member of an official committee or a political party. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

" History is full of people who went to prison or were burned at the stake for proclaiming their ideas. Society has always defended itself. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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