If life has no meaning, why don't we create a meaning for it?

One effect that the Nobel Prize seems to have had is that more Arabic literary works have been translated into other languages.

The calendar has a magic that makes us imagine a memory can be resurrected and revived, but nothing returns.

Winning Nobel imposed on me a lifestyle to which I am not used and which I would not have preferred.

He seemed to be waiting for a miracle to save him from the depths his life had reached and take him to a land of dreams.

When you spend time with your friends, what do you talk about? Those things which made an impression on you that day, that week ... I write stories the same way. Events at home, in school, at work, in the street, these are the bases for a story. Some experiences leave such a deep impression that instead of talking about them at the club I work them into a novel.

I believe in life and in people. I feel obliged to advocate their highest ideals as long as I believe them to be true. I also see myself compelled to revolt against ideals I believe to be false, since recoiling from rebellion would be a form of treason