11 Quotes by Nuruddin Farah

No writing is good enough until you, as an author, make a small contribution, the size of a drop, into the ocean of the world’s literature.

There are moments in one's life when everything one considers to be a win is for all practical purposes a loss.

I have tried my best to keep my country alive by writing about it.

To the Somali, the Amerikaan is weird, to the American GI, the Somali is an ingrate and a skinny.

That in a civil war there is continuous fighting, based on grievences that are forever changing.

Good writing is like a bomb: it explodes in the face of the reader.

Death in Somalia seldom bothers to announce its arrival. In fact, death calls with the arrogance of a guest confident on receiving a warm welcome at any time, no question asked.

What’s more, she gives shapes to the links between words and their meanings, and then fits them into chains of her own choosing.

It’s possible that some of us cannot help losing ourselves in the sorrows of other people’s stories.