Book Quote by Elliott Colla

There were a hundred booksellers in the old round city founded by the eighth-century caliph al-Mansur. The café and wine-drinking culture of Baghdad has…

— Annia Ciezadlo

So you have in Iraq some people falling prey to the system, some people managing to negotiate independence, and other people becoming outlaws, and…

— Elliott Colla

The book of Job is pure Arab poetry of the highest and most antique cast.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Certain readers will read my book not because they are interested in Iraq, but because they read crime fiction. I did want to get…

— Elliott Colla

“He is no mean poet, and his verse can rouse or persuade even if his logic fail to convince. His message is not for…

— Muhammad Iqbal

I came to poetry at fourteen, in the middle of a booming oil-rush town in southern Arabia without a single public library: Abu Dhabi,…

— Andre Naffis-Sahely

There is an Arabic writer who wrote philosophy and poetry and who brought all religions and all the world together.

— Salma Hayek

“What people want to read often seems incongruous. A pair of biker-types taking away Thoughts of the Dalai Lama. People without access to instruments…

— Alan Bennett

[I]n every part of this eastern world, from Pekin to Damascus, the popular teachers of moral wisdom have immemorially been poets.

— William Jones

Who I love reading is Jordan Mechner, who wrote 'Prince of Persia.' He put all his journals while he was writing 'Prince of Persia'…

— Mike Krieger

Poets are sultans, if they had their will; For every author would his brother kill.

— Roger Boyle, 1st Earl of Orrery

Is it possible to write a poem or are these words just screams of outlaws exiled to the desert?

— Dejan Stojanovic