Iran Quote by Azar Nafisi

“A novel is not an allegory...it is a sensual experience of another world. If you don't enter that world, hold your breath with the…

— Azar Nafisi

“I have a recurring fantasy that one more article has been added to the Bill of Rights: the right to free access to imagination.…

— Azar Nafisi

“Hope for some means its loss for others; when the hopeless regain some hope, those in power--the ones who had taken it away--become afraid,…

— Azar Nafisi

Imagine you are walking down a leafy path…The sun is receding, and you are walking alone, caressed by the breezy light of the late…

— Azar Nafisi

If I turned towards books, it was because they were the only sanctuary I knew, one I needed in order to survive, to protect…

— Azar Nafisi

“Such an act [testifying for an accused prison guard of the Shah's regime] can only be accomplished by someone who is engrossed in literature,…

— Azar Nafisi

It is only through literature that one can put oneself in someone else’s shoes and understand the other’s different and contradictory sides and refrain…

— Azar Nafisi

“That first day I asked my students what they thought fiction should accomplish, why one should bother to read fiction at all. It was…

— Azar Nafisi

“you cannot just be stubborn against something, you need to be stubborn for something as well”

— Azar Nafisi

Do not, under any circumstances, belittle a work of fiction by trying to turn it into a carbon copy of real life; what we…

— Azar Nafisi

Visa for Avalon is a testament to the power of fiction. It illuminates the truth at the heart of what is commonly called reality.…

— Azar Nafisi

“You ask me what it means to be irrelevant? The feeling is akin to visiting your old house as a wandering ghost with unfinished…

— Azar Nafisi