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 Crazy Copy Share Image
I've never had any desire to be good. I don't like goodness particularly. — Hanif Kureishi Be good Copy Share Image
Harvey [Weinstein] didn't want to release [MY SON THE FANATIC]; he held it for two years because he wanted a happy ending,… — Hanif Kureishi Crafts Copy Share Image
“Ali isto tako sam i shvatio da prestupnistvo samo ucvrscuje pravila koja pokusava da prekrsi. Nista ne osnazuje normu kao odstupanje od… — Hanif Kureishi Copy Share Image
One would hope, as well that intimacy would leave more of a mark, that more of it would remain. But it doesn’t.… — Hanif Kureishi Ends Copy Share Image
I guess writing is a kind of therapy in the sense that there are things you need to say and you say… — Hanif Kureishi Kind Copy Share Image
What a quality of innocence people have when they don't expect to be harmed. — Hanif Kureishi Innocence Copy Share Image
“People who were only ever half right about things drove me mad. I hated the flood of opinion, the certainty, the easy… — Hanif Kureishi Ignorance Copy Share Image
“Desire is naughty and doesn't conform to our ideals, which is why we have such a need of them. Desire mocks all… — Hanif Kureishi Desire Copy Share Image
I began to enjoy my own generosity; I felt the pleasure of pleasing others, especially as this was accompanied by money-power. I… — Hanif Kureishi Enjoy Copy Share Image
“Maybe you never stop feeling like an eight-year-old in front of your parents. You resolve to be your mature self, to react… — Hanif Kureishi Children Copy Share Image
“I don’t like being left for long struggling with my dangerous self.” — Hanif Kureishi Self Copy Share Image
If you get depressed, you can be stuck for months; if you have an analyst, you at least have a chance of… — Hanif Kureishi Analysts Copy Share Image
My father was a civil servant, so having a regular job, being respectable is a big deal for me. Respectable in the… — Hanif Kureishi Big deal Copy Share Image
...I love 'yes.' It's practically the most interesting word of all, don't you think?" Like a hinge opening a door outward. Yes,… — Hanif Kureishi Doors Copy Share Image
“Sometimes I felt the whole world was converging on this little room. And as I became more intoxicated and frustrated I'd throw… — Hanif Kureishi Whole world Copy Share Image
Watching Jamila sometimes made me think the world was divided into three sorts of people: those who knew what they wanted to… — Hanif Kureishi Born Copy Share Image