Nuruddin Farah quotes

“I have tried my best to keep my country alive by writing about it.”
-- Nuruddin Farah

Source : "Somali Author Reflects on Conflict in Native Country". Interview with Jeffrey Brown, www.pbs.org. February 27, 2007.

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“She wondered then if she had ever been on the right track. She had been reticent all her life, because it turned out that her opinions were different from what others expected. 'That proves either that I am an exceptional idiot, or the reverse.”
-- Nuruddin Farah

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“Death in Somalia seldom bothers to announce its arrival. In fact, death calls with the arrogance of a guest confident on receiving a warm welcome at any time, no question asked.”
-- Nuruddin Farah

Source : Nuruddin Farah (2015). “Hiding in Plain Sight”, p.18, Oneworld Publications

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“That in a civil war there is continuous fighting, based on grievences that are forever changing.”
-- Nuruddin Farah

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“To the Somali, the Amerikaan is weird, to the American GI, the Somali is an ingrate and a skinny.”
-- Nuruddin Farah

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“Good writing is like a bomb: it explodes in the face of the reader.”
-- Nuruddin Farah

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“Into my hear an air that kills through yon far country blows what are those blue remembered hills what spires,what farms are those? that is the land of lost content I can see it shining plain the happy highways where I went and cannot come again.”

“American statesmen might like some Europeans more than others and even detect quaint resemblances to their own outlook; but they no more committed themselves to a particular group or country than a nineteenth-century missionary committed himself to the African tribe in which he happened to find himself.”

“I am a big admirer of Sachin and his personality. He is a source of inspiration for the country and just looking at his photographs gives a lot of positive vibes.”

“The obedient in art are always the forgotten . . . The country is glorious but its beauties are unknown, and but waiting for a real live artist to splash them onto canvas . . . Chop your own path. Get off the car track.”

“He [Hemingway] used a stand-up work place he had fashioned out of the top of of a bookcase near his bed. His portable typewriter was snugged in there and papers were spread along the top of the bookcase on either side of it. He used a reading board for longhand writing.”

Source : A. E. Hotchner (2009). “Papa Hemingway: A Personal Memoir”, p.14, Da Capo Press

“The primary requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite.”

Source : A. J. Liebling (2005). “Just Enough Liebling: Classic Work by the Legendary New Yorker Writer”, p.27, Macmillan

“The only way to write is well and how you do it is your own damn business.”

“When I write I have no loyalty except to historical truth as I see it and care no more about British achievements and mistakes than any other.”

“Remember to keep yourself alive, there is nothing more important than that.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“I am more alive in the theater than anywhere else, but what I take into the theater I get from the streets.”