I also really liked playing Mr. Tumnus in 'Narnia'. I got to play my favorite character in children's literature, which I loved. You don't get the chance to do that in other jobs.

In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.

What has influenced my life more than any other single thing has been my stammer. Had I not stammered I would probably... have gone to Cambridge as my brothers did, perhaps have become a don and every now and then published a dreary book about French literature.

The crown of literature is poetry.

Ultimately, literature is nothing but carpentry. With both you are working with reality, a material just as hard as wood.

Literature... is the union of suffering with the instinct for form.

Literature exists at the same time in the modes of error and truth; it both betrays and obeys its own mode of being.

And Marx spoke of the fact that socialism will be the kingdom of freedom, where man realizes himself in a way that humankind has never seen before. This was an inspiring body of literature to read.

I didn't make any money from my writing until much later. I published about 80 stories for nothing. I spent on literature.

The Nobel Prize has given me, for the first time in my life, the feeling that my literature could be appreciated on an international level.

The Arab world also won the Nobel with me. I believe that international doors have opened, and that from now on, literate people will consider Arab literature also. We deserve that recognition.

Without literature my life would be miserable.

I just happen to like the work. I like preparing for a role. I like reading. I like analyzing. I like literature. I like emotions. I like working with other actors.

In science, read by preference the newest works. In literature, read the oldest. The classics are always modern.

When once the itch of literature comes over a man, nothing can cure it but the scratching of a pen. But if you have not a pen, I suppose you must scratch any way you can.