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Ahlam Mosteghanemi
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“While writing for Arab readers, it is very important to think about how to get your ideas across. In order to reach everyone, you should make sure to transmit your messages without provoking or drawing the attention of political, religious, and social censorship. Skilled writers are skilled smugglers of ideas. They encrypt their ideas to get their message across smoothly.”
Ahlam Mosteghanemi (born 1953) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I would, first, advise them to start writing about what they know best (i.e. themselves, their immediate environments, feelings, etc.). Writers should also hone their craft by constant practice, producing many drafts, as haste is a detriment to a writer’s success. My last piece of advice is that, when they achieve success, they should not become arrogant; arrogance can incapacitate writers. Voltaire rightfully says that “the writer dies suffocating under bouquets of flowers.”
Ahlam Mosteghanemi (born 1953) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I have spent many years in Paris. I got married there, started my small family there, and received my PhD at the Sorbonne. Thus, I am very familiar with the issues that could have attracted French and Western media, and paved the way to my fame at the international level; however, I am not interested in that fame. Glory and fame do not mean much to me. I understand that many Algerian writers might have a different attitude, which I respect. But for me, nothing equals the glory of being close to your people and heritage.”
Ahlam Mosteghanemi (born 1953) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“When we lose a love, we write a poem; when we lose our homeland, we write a novel”
Ahlam Mosteghanemi (born 1953) first seen 2016 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Dust of Promises, by Ahlam Mosteghanemi - book review: Allegories of erotic love and acts of political resistance,By Stevie Davies, retrieved on 18 January 2016
“Arabic was my father’s choice, not mine; he wanted me to avenge him, as he was deprived of learning it by the French colonizer, who declared war on the Arabic language as a way of stripping Algerians of their identity.”
Ahlam Mosteghanemi (born 1953) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Glory and fame do not mean much to me.”
Ahlam Mosteghanemi (born 1953) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“For me, nothing equals the glory of being close to your people and heritage.”
Ahlam Mosteghanemi (born 1953) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I am the writer whose readers are writers.”
Ahlam Mosteghanemi (born 1953) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source