Naguib Mahfouz Quotes

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

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.

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