Aly Montaser

“Try mentally to travel to a faraway place, if not necessarily in order to move your world – though how splendid that would be! – but to see it clearly for what it is. Doing so will grant you the opportunity to retain your freedom. And to remain a free spirit as you grow up and make your way in this world, it is essential that you cultivate a rare but crucial freedom: the liberty that comes from knowing how the economy works and from the capacity to answer the trillion-dollar question: ‘Who does what to whom around your neck of the woods and further afield?”
― Yanis Varoufakis, Talking to My Daughter About the Economy: A Brief History of Capitalism

“نمقت الهزيمة، لا نقبل بها، فإن قضت علينا، نموت كالشجر واقفين، ننجز أمرين كلاهما جميل: شرف المحاولة وخبراتٌ ثمينة، تركةٌ نخلّفها بحرص إلى القادمين. هناك احتمال آخر لتتويج مسعانا بغير الهزيمة، ما دمنا قررنا أننا لن نموت قبل أن نحاول أن نحيا”
― رضوى عاشور

“أبى .. تبهت ذكراه بكرور السنين وأشعر بالأسى كلما أكتشفت أننى لم أعد قادرا على استدعاء لون عينيه، وأعود إلى أوراقى القديمة لأتثبت أنه مات ضحى يوم الأثنين قائظ الحرارة فى شهر يوليو البغيض.”
― مصطفى بيومى, إنسان

“This sentence has five words. Here are five more words. Five-word sentences are fine. But several together become monotonous. Listen to what is happening. The writing is getting boring. The sound of it drones. It's like a stuck record. The ear demands some variety. Now listen. I vary the sentence length, and I create music. Music. The writing sings. It has a pleasant rhythm, a lilt, a harmony. I use short sentences. And I use sentences of medium length. And sometimes, when I am certain the reader is rested, I will engage him with a sentence of considerable length, a sentence that burns with the energy and builds with all the impetus of a crescendo, the roll of the drums, the crash of the cymbals - sounds that say listen to this, it is important.”
― Gary Provost, 100 Ways to Improve Your Writing: Proven Professional Techniques for Writing With Style and Power