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.

According to Islamic principles, when a man is accused of heresy, he is given the choice between repentance and punishment.

I was a government employee in the morning and a writer in the evening.

The Nobel Prize has given me, for the first time in my life, the feeling that my literature could be appreciated on an international level.

It is simply not part of my culture to preserve notes. I have never heard of a writer preserving his early drafts.

Only the poor are handicapped by honor.

The criminal is trying to solve his immediate problems.