Hanif Kureishi Quotes

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.

What a quality of innocence people have when they don't expect to be harmed.

I began to enjoy my own generosity; I felt the pleasure of pleasing others, especially as this was accompanied by money-power. I was paying for them; they were grateful, they had to be; and they could no longer see me as a failure.

Children, who have yet to learn our ways, are notoriously promiscuous in their affection. They’ll sit on anyone’s knee.

Nothing can be repaired or advanced but only accepted