You know what I'm afraid of? That God is sick of us.
If the urge to write should ever leave me, I want that day to be my last.
The Koran and the laws of all civilized nations legislate against the vilification of religions.
I was a government employee in the morning and a writer in the evening.
If you want to move people, you look for a point of sensitivity, and in Egypt nothing moves people as much as religion.
It is simply not part of my culture to preserve notes. I have never heard of a writer preserving his early drafts.