Ihab Nagdat

“والحق أن الجوزة تدور لأن كل شيء يدور، ولو كانت الأفلاك تسير في خط مستقيم لتغير نظام الغرزة. وليلة أمس اقتنعت تماماً بالخلود، ولكني نسيت الأسباب وأنا ذاهب للأرشيف.”
― نجيب محفوظ, ثرثرة فوق النيل

“The mark of a real man, is a man who can allow himself to fall deeply in love with a woman. But the reason why a man is often heartbroken, is because a woman can become overcome by the reality that she has made a man out of a boy, because it's just such an overwhelming process, a beautiful and powerful evolution. Therefore, a man needs to fall in love with a woman who knows that men don't happen every day, and when a man does happen, that's a gift! A gift not always given, and one that shouldn't be thrown away so easily.”
― C. JoyBell C.

“There is no doubt fiction makes a better job of the truth.”
― Doris May Lessing, Under My Skin: Volume One of My Autobiography, to 1949

“The artist committing himself to his calling has volunteered for hell, whether he knows it or not. He will be dining for the duration on a diet of isolation, rejection, self-doubt, despair, ridicule, contempt, and humiliation.”
― Steven Pressfield, The War of Art