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" The writer interweaves a story with his own doubts, questions, and values. That is art. "

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

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

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

" Insults are the business of the court. "

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

" Sadat made us feel more secure. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

" We are passing through a very sensitive time, and on the whole, this country is facing very big problems. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I started writing while I was a little boy. Maybe it's because I was reading a lot of books I admired, and thought that I would like to write something like that someday. Also, my love for good writing pushed me. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

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