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Posted by J. D. Finch   
Friday, 02 May 2008
“I am writing for ordinary people,” he told me. “I want everyone to be able to read my books. The problem with Arab literature has been that it forgot to tell stories and lost its way in experimentation. Too many novels that start with lines like ‘I came home to find my wife having sex with a cockroach.’ ”


Egyptian novelist Alaa Al Aswany in The New York Times, April 27, 2008



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1. 02-05-2008 19:11
 
This quote was interesting. I don't really agree with the premise, though. Who's to say that "ordinary" people can't get into stories of great imagination that take place in worlds we're not used to? A quote like this doesn't give "ordinary" people much credit.
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