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Naguib Mahfouz Quotes

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.

Naguib Mahfouz

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: egyptian
Birth: December 11, 1911 - August 30, 2006

Topics

Love Good Me Writing Reading Boy

We are beginning to see that money, after all, is not the main thing. The real values cannot be bought and sold.

John Burroughs

Money Beginning Values Real See

I've lived publicly and never hidden behind closed doors. Therefore, if I have gone over the top sometimes, it has been visible.

John Hurt

Doors Sometimes Hidden Never Top

I don't look on the Internet; it's a world of pain.

Max Irons

Pain World Internet Look

The summer after high school, I got a TASCAM because I had been writing a lot and thought it would be cool if I recorded stuff not just on my phone.

Soccer Mommy

School Cool Writing Thought Phone

The knowledge and insights you can get in just one day at a writers' conference make it worth the trip.

Tomi Adeyemi

Knowledge Day Worth You One Day Get

I am less disposed to think of a West Point education as requisite for this business than I was at first. Good sense and energy are the qualities required.

Rutherford B. Hayes

Education Good Business I Am Energy

I enjoyed being a police officer; I enjoyed the investigations.

Julia Pierson

Police Police Officer Being Enjoyed

In truth, men speak too much of danger.

Jose Marti

Truth Men Speak Too Much Danger Too

I want to do a Tennessee Williams play.

Cobie Smulders

Play Want Tennessee Williams

When I was growing up, a lot of books affected me, but I never wrote letters to the author or anything like that. I'm always mindful that there are probably a whole bunch of people reading my books like that, too.

Shaun Tan

People Me Growing Up Reading Growing

I'm not interested in gothic storytelling or the horrific for its own sake. I'm always interested in it as a way of getting at larger ideas or important meaning. And you don't see that as much as you'd think in the history of horror cinema. A lot of times, it's scariness for scariness' own sake.

Scott Derrickson

History Ideas Think Meaning You Way

When I went to Paris after graduating high school, I saw a model who was 12 years old without any supervision. That wouldn't happen in the acting world.

Tyra Banks

Dreams Mistakes Thinking Doing Just