American - Writer | 1970 -
I am longing to see Libya rejoin the world as the internationalist Mediterranean country that it was.
Hisham Matar
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Language is not just a code; you are writing into its history, into its tides.
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Architecture remains a passion and a subject I'm very interested in. I learned a great deal from studying it and working in it.
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My best hope is that Libya turns into a peaceful, sensible country that has all the things my father and lots of others have been calling for: independence of the courts and press, a protected and democratic constitution, with different parties involved in a healthy and open debate.
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My work is my shelter, particularly in these moments when things are happening fast.
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One of the reasons why Gadafy's dictatorship has managed to remain in power for so long is not just because it has shown itself to be able to exact a great deal of violence, both psychological and physical, on its people, but because it has been very successful at imposing a narrative, a story.
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To me, writing is like singing in the most inappropriate place, singing as beautifully as you can on a bus or in a bank, where people least expect it, and trying to get them to want to listen.
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There is a tendency to over-exaggerate and over-romanticise the place of a writer in a revolution. That bothers me. I think it's inappropriate.
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Making something of loss is, on some level, satisfying.
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There's always a problem when you write, something you're trying to resolve, and sometimes a view can be inspiring.
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I think, ultimately, I am a sensualist and an aesthete.
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The romantic idea of the penniless writer is false. It's terrible. I hated being in debt. I hated the anxiety of not knowing whether we could pay our rent that month. Thankfully, I had a wife who was very supportive and had faith and shared my madness.
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