Home › Authors › Nuruddin Farah
Nuruddin Farah Quotes
born 1945 Somalia
Nuruddin Farah (born 1945) is a Somali novelist. His first novel, From a Crooked Rib, was published in 1970 and has been described as "one of the cornerstones of modern East African literature today".
Random Nuruddin Farah quote
62 quotes
It is not the man, it is the system that creates the man
Writing, as a profession, is tedious, not very enjoyable. Nor is it highly appreciated, nor understood
A major writer is one who has a greater vision than she or he is capable of capturing immediately
The language is not the main issue; rather the key is, in the end, the ideas that carry the book
The majority of writers in Africa, of us, confine ourselves, rather than having great ambition
Studying dictatorship and writing about it and analysing it is something that requires either madness or bravery
There’s a lot of things that you internalise when something is happening right in front of you. Your emotion is raw
The marathoner who has not yet arrived at the finish line, though he can see it, cannot say that he has achieved his goal
‘We must respect the individual for who they are and not where they are from
If you send your dog out and it bites someone, you take responsibility
I generally do not like to justify a text, a text speaks for itself
I come from a place where I question tradition. I come from a place where I say the elders have mucked up everything. I’m an aberration.
When you listen, you arm yourself against your enemy
I am forever indebted to the Somali oral tradition
If you listen, you won’t need to pull out a gun
All societies are horrid to women, just awful
am hoping that peace will become more fashionable in my country
When people mention my name, it is respected, but not many people have any idea what my work is really about
I take great pleasure in telling people I am a Somali
it is the African leaders I blame for, time and time again, not sorting out the problems internally
Topics Nuruddin Farah is quoted on