First Of All, All Writing Includes Some

I've Lived Here [in Egypt] Among Christians And Muslims, And We Never Had A Conflict. Now You Have A Conflict Between Christians And Muslims And Baha'is And Sunni And Shia. The Salafists Are Trying To Abort The Revolution And Make It Religious, Though The Revolution Started Secular.

Home To Me Is The World Because My Books Have Been Translated Into More Than 30 Languages. People Feel They Know Me And The Minute They Talk About My Life Or Books I Feel At Home. Home Is Where You Are Appreciated, Safe And Protected, Creative, And Where You Are Loved – Not Where You Are Put In Prison.

I Never Stopped Writing. I Started Writing When I Was Twelve Years Of Age. And I Was Writing All The Time. But Nothing Was Translated Until Thirty Years After I Started Writing, When The Hidden Face Of Eve Was Translated In 1980.

The Tracing Of A Child's Lineage And Its Name With Reference To The Father, Though It Has Lasted For Many Thousands Of Years, Has Not Become Any The More Natural Or Reasonable As A Result.

My Skin Is Soft, But My Heart Is Cruel, And My Bite Is Deadly.