If the urge to write should ever leave me, I want that day to be my last.

I was afraid of marriage. I had the impression married life would take up all my time. I saw myself drowning in visits and parties. No freedom.

If you want to move people, you look for a point of sensitivity, and in Egypt nothing moves people as much as religion.

Today's interpretations of religion are often backward and contradict the needs of civilization.

Events at home, at work, in the street - these are the bases for a story.

Literature should be more revolutionary than revolutions themselves; writers must find the means to continue to be critical of the negative elements in the sociopolitical reality.

The heart is a place of secrets.