Nawal El Saadawi Quotes

I've figured out in the course of my life that the one thing I'm good at doing is writing books, and it would be crazy to trade that in for something else.

I think that, for physicians who want to become writers, they have the material, the smarts, they have the logic, they know the stories; it's just a matter of being able to connect with their emotional sides - that's the key to writing good fiction.

If I did anything 'next', I would do writing.

Writing is very much an emotional process; it requires you to be very in touch with your feelings. That is the opposite of what you're taught as a medical doctor. We're supposed to be detached and logical. Maybe because I started off as a writer and then became a doctor, I'm able to integrate those two.

I can only write a book like 'The Tin Drum' or 'From the Diary of a Snail' at a special period of my life. The books came about because of how I felt and thought at the time.

If I were to have a dream job, it would probably be a poet. Then again, I don't think I'm a very good poet!

I guess you could say I've been writing all my life.

I am also a writer. That is a fact not known by the public in general.

I don't feel that I wanted to spend my whole writing life - which is my life - writing detective stories.

I entered the literary world, really, from outside. My entire background has been in sciences; I was a biology major in college, then went to medical school. I've never had any formal training in writing.

I've always written, all my life, and when I was very young I developed an interest in poetry.

I have more to say as a writer than from behind a wok.

By the time I was 23 or 24 and had written the first manuscript of 'The Final Winter', I knew I wanted to make it a career but didn't know how. It took me a long time to grow into myself, but when my love of writing returned, it did so with an enormous amount of venom. It is now a mainstay in my life.

The thing that teases the mind over and over for years, and at last gets itself put down rightly on paper whether little or great, it belongs to Literature.

I'm not a writer, and I don't want there to be any mistake about that.

I am very fortunate in that I have spent pretty much my whole life being a writer, and before I was a writer, I was a storyteller.

I never met anybody in my life who says, I want to be a critic. People want to be a fireman, poet, novelist.

Big Night and The Impostors are both things that I wrote.

I've carved out a career for myself really as a writer.

I started as a writer. I had the dumb act, but I made my living from writing.

I'm not a dedicated writer in the sense of Stephen King.

Writing is nagging, fascinating, troublesome and exciting.

I'm not a writer; I'm not a novelist.

I've been writing since I was maybe seven.

I want to be a writer, not an engineer who writes books.