Books Quote by Naguib Mahfouz Download Open image “Without literature my life would be miserable.” — Naguib Mahfouz ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.5 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books Hygiene Life Literature Miserable Would be
How very dull our lives would be without literature! How very much dark and poor, how so sad and empty the world would be! — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
Life without literature is a life reduced to penury. It expands you in every way. It illuminates what you’re doing. It shows you possibilities… — M. H. Abrams Copy Share Image
Literature is both my joy and my comfort: it can add to every happiness and there is no sorrow it cannot console. — Pliny the Younger Copy Share Image
Literature is the ditch I'm going to die in. It's still the thing I care most about. — Thomas McGuane Copy Share Image
Without books I would not have become a vivacious reader, and if you are not a reader you are not a writer. — Ken Follett Copy Share Image
Literature is a cake with many toys baked inside--and even if you find them all, if you don't enjoy the path that leads you… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I could not live by literature if only to begin with, because of the slow maturing of my work and its special character. — Tillie Olsen Copy Share Image
Literature is a beautiful way of keeping the imagination alive, of visiting worlds you would never have time to in your day-to-day life. It… — Abraham Verghese Copy Share Image
Writing is for men who can think and feel, not mindless sensation seekers out of nightclubs and bars. But these are bad times. We… — Naguib Mahfouz Copy Share Image
He seemed to be waiting for a miracle to save him from the depths his life had reached and take him to a land… — Naguib Mahfouz Copy Share Image
I thought they would never select an Eastern writer for the Nobel. I was surprised. — Naguib Mahfouz Copy Share Image
The Arab world also won the Nobel with me. I believe that international doors have opened, and that from now on, literate people will… — Naguib Mahfouz Copy Share Image
I am the son of two civilizations that at a certain age in history have formed a happy marriage. The first of these, seven… — Naguib Mahfouz Copy Share Image
I accepted the interviews and encounters that had to be held with the media, but I would have preferred to work in peace. — Naguib Mahfouz Copy Share Image
Events at home, at work, in the street - these are the bases for a story. — Naguib Mahfouz Copy Share Image
Today's interpretations of religion are often backward and contradict the needs of civilization. — Naguib Mahfouz Copy Share Image
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.' — Lydia Lunch Copy Share Image
My sentences got sharper and my stories more efficient, and I gradually learned to imagine the reader more clearly and to empathize with that… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
“Within the pages of books, I've journeyed to Mandalay, the Milky Way and Santa Fe, without once having to leave my armchair.” — Kevin Ansbro Copy Share Image
“Tacitus did not write a most dangerous book. His readers made it so.” — Christopher K. Krebs Copy Share Image
“Take some books and read; that’s an immense help; and books are always good company if you have the right sort.” — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
