We do not have many intellectuals who can speak out for us internationally. We have no writers who are recognized, respected and… — Tahar Ben Jelloun Copy Share Image
I write about wounds, the eternal treasons of life. It's not very funny, but it's sincere. My commitment is to sincerity. — Tahar Ben Jelloun Copy Share Image
I belong to a specific category of writers, those who speak and write in a language different from that of their parents. — Tahar Ben Jelloun Copy Share Image
My sensibility steers me toward writers who are out on their own. — Tahar Ben Jelloun Copy Share Image
“I am glad I have found a readership, but one can't write only what is likely to sell. A writer is not… — Tahar Ben Jelloun Copy Share Image
I am glad to have found a readership, but one can’t write only what is likely to sell. A writer is not… — Tahar Ben Jelloun Copy Share Image
What have we achieved since the end of the Second World War? We have allowed petty, bourgeois regimes in which everything is average, mediocre. — Tahar Ben Jelloun Copy Share Image
“A novel related in a dungeon, in the presence of death, cannot have the same meaning, the same consequences, as it would when read… — Tahar Ben Jelloun Copy Share Image
This universe can very well be expressed in words and syllables which are not those of one's mother tongue. — Tahar Ben Jelloun Copy Share Image
The intellectual, the man of thought, doubt and analysis, should give the best of himself. — Tahar Ben Jelloun Copy Share Image
I'd thought sexuality was instinctive or natural, but it's profoundly linked to inner security and cultural context. — Tahar Ben Jelloun Copy Share Image
I don't feel guilty about expressing myself in French; nor do I feel that I am continuing the work of the colonizers. — Tahar Ben Jelloun Copy Share Image
Real friendship, like real poetry, is extremely rare - and precious as a pearl. — Tahar Ben Jelloun Copy Share Image
Our steps invent the path as we proceed; behind us they leave no trace, only the void. So we shall always look ahead and… — Tahar Ben Jelloun Copy Share Image
“Man is more noble dead than alive, because in returning to the earth he becomes earth, and nothing is nobler than the earth that… — Tahar ben Jelloun Copy Share Image
