People Quote by Ahdaf Soueif Download Open image “If people can write to each other across space, why can they not write across time too?” — Ahdaf Soueif ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.9 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare People Space Time Writing
I cannot always write at the same time, in the same place. I work, travel and have a vigorous family life. If I'm stranded… — Carmen Agra Deedy Copy Share Image
Writing can be either readable or precise, but not at the same time. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Writing is like driving at night in the fog. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole… — E. L. Doctorow Copy Share Image
Writing has nothing to do with communication between person and person, only with communication between different parts of a person's mind. — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
Writing is nothing less than thought transference, the ability to send one's ideas out into the world, beyond time and distance, taken at the… — Arthur M. Jolly Copy Share Image
“...because writing is fundamentally an act of reaching out from self to other. It is a reminder that we are not alone in the… — Alicia Rasley Copy Share Image
While we were promoting 'Wide Open Spaces,' we set aside time to write. We went on several writing retreats where nobody could get hold… — Martie Maguire Copy Share Image
“There have been those among us who have been so dazzled by the might and technological wizardy of Europe that they have been rather… — Ahdaf Soueif Copy Share Image
And Egypt ? What is Egypt strenght?her resilience ?her ability to absorb poeple and events into the pores of her being? is that true… — Ahdaf Soueif Copy Share Image
“Put football instead of cricket and she could have been me. She could have been Arwa, or Deena or any of the girls I… — Ahdaf Soueif Copy Share Image
“ I fancy he is attempting to purge himself of — all manner of things. I beg him to take heart, for our Lord… — Ahdaf Soueif Copy Share Image
Egypt.mother of civilization, dreaming herself through the centuries. Dreaming us all, her children: those who stay and work for her and complain of her,… — Ahdaf Soueif Copy Share Image
“Ya Ummi(my mother), I cannot live my life with a woman who has no key to my mind and does not share my concerns.… — Ahdaf Soueif Copy Share Image
It is that happy stretch of time when the lovers set to chronicling their passion. When no glance, no tone of voice is so… — Ahdaf Soueif Copy Share Image
“The encompassing silence and the ease(or difference) of my companions have left my soul free to contemplate, to drink in the wonder of this… — Ahdaf Soueif Copy Share Image
I now find myself looking at every sentence, every image, that purports to tell the West about the Arabs and the Muslims with this… — Ahdaf Soueif Copy Share Image
“and the thought of relieving my mourning, even slightly, for a moment filled me with a kind of fear.” — Ahdaf Soueif Copy Share Image
“Every day she waits for night-time. She goes to bed at half past eight because that is the earliest time she can imagine going… — Ahdaf Soueif Copy Share Image
If I am going to be phased out by whatever powers, then I want people to know that it is not because I am… — Parvathy Copy Share Image
Some people still believe you should just fall in line with what's going on - and that's scary. It makes a mockery of freedom… — Emily Robison Copy Share Image
The truth seems to be that propaganda on its own cannot force its way into unwilling minds; neither can it inculcate something wholly new;… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
From Augustine down, theologians have tried to compel people to accept their special interpretation of the Scripture, and the tortures of the inquisition, the… — Matilda Joslyn Gage Copy Share Image
I wanted to write about voodoo tradition that I feel has been very important to survival of black people here: people of the African… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
I feel like I definitely have a real sporty style, more so than a lot of people in G.O.O.D. Music. — Big Sean Copy Share Image
I feel like the future is unwritten. So many of the things that we write now haven't been about educating people on the environment,… — John Flansburgh Copy Share Image
The only people who think the Internet is a calamity are people whose lives have been hurt by it; the only people who insist… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
Crony capitalism is essentially a condition in which... public officials are giving favours to people in the private sector in payment of political favours. — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
I think, here's what I've realized from interviewing people, and I've been very open about my Catholicism and my love of Christ and I… — Jay Mohr Copy Share Image
For us who are now in power, we need to be challenged to serve the people and ignore our own egos and personal interests… — Wangari Maathai Copy Share Image
When I was trying to come up with a stage name, I thought 'Lord' was super rad, but really masculine - ever since I… — Lorde Copy Share Image
