Naguib Mahfouz Men Quotations

If we reject science, we reject the common man.

I was a government employee in the morning and a writer in the evening.

Literature should be more revolutionary than revolutions themselves; writers must find the means to continue to be critical of the negative elements in the sociopolitical reality.

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.

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

Writing is for men who can think and feel, not mindless sensation seekers out of nightclubs and bars. But these are bad times. We are condemned to work with upstarts, clowns who no doubt got their training in a circus and then turned to journalism as the appropriate place to display their tricks.