Safety Quotes by Hanif Kureishi

I'm always writing. I'm an obsessive. It's not because I'm a disciplined person. It's because I'm crazy about it.

— Hanif Kureishi

I've never had any desire to be good. I don't like goodness particularly.

— Hanif Kureishi

Harvey [Weinstein] didn't want to release [MY SON THE FANATIC]; he held it for two years because he wanted a happy ending, although I…

— Hanif Kureishi

“Starenje nije za slabice.”

— Hanif Kureishi

“Ali isto tako sam i shvatio da prestupnistvo samo ucvrscuje pravila koja pokusava da prekrsi. Nista ne osnazuje normu kao odstupanje od nje.”

— Hanif Kureishi

One would hope, as well that intimacy would leave more of a mark, that more of it would remain. But it doesn’t. You just…

— Hanif Kureishi

“You see people truly when they enjoy the most.”

— Hanif Kureishi

I guess writing is a kind of therapy in the sense that there are things you need to say and you say them, and…

— Hanif Kureishi

What a quality of innocence people have when they don't expect to be harmed.

— Hanif Kureishi

“People who were only ever half right about things drove me mad. I hated the flood of opinion, the certainty, the easy talk about…

— Hanif Kureishi

“Desire is naughty and doesn't conform to our ideals, which is why we have such a need of them. Desire mocks all human endeavour…

— Hanif Kureishi

I began to enjoy my own generosity; I felt the pleasure of pleasing others, especially as this was accompanied by money-power. I was paying…

— Hanif Kureishi