Quotes by Azar Nafisi

Azar Nafisi

A bad author can take the most moral issue and make you want to just never, ever think about that moral issue.

Issues

Thinking

Want

A good novel is one that shows the complexity of individuals, and creates enough space for all these characters to have a voice; in this way a novel is called democratic – not that it advocates democracy but that by nature it is so. Empathy lies at the heart of Gatsby, like so many other great novels – the biggest sin is to be blind to others’ problems and pains. Not seeing them means denying their existence.

Heart

Lying

Pain

A novel is not an allegory…. It is the sensual experience of another world. If you don’t enter that world, hold your breath with the characters and become involved in their destiny, you won’t be able to empathize, and empathy is at the heart of the novel. This is how you read a novel: you inhale the experience. So start breathing.

Character

Destiny

Heart

America was based on a poetic vision. What will happen when it loses its poetry?

America

Poetic License

Vision

Art is no longer snobbish or cowardly. It teaches peasants to use tractors, gives lyrics to young soldiers, designs textiles for factory women’s dresses, writes burlesque for factory theatres, does a hundred other useful tasks. Art is as usueful as bread.

Art

Giving

Writing

Basically, fundamentalism is a modern phenomenon. In the same way that Hitler evoked a mythological religion of German purity and the glory of the past, the Islamists use religion to evoke emotions and passions in people who have been oppressed for a long time in order to reach their purpose.

Order

Passion

Past

Do not, under any circumstances, belittle a work of fiction by trying to turn it into a carbon copy of real life; what we search for in fiction is not so much reality but the epiphany of truth.

Fiction

Real

Trying

Empathy lies at the heart of Gatsby, like so many other great novels-the biggest sin is to be blind to others problems and pains. Not seeing them means denying their existence.

Heart

Lying

Pain

Every culture has something to be ashamed of, but every culture also has the right to change, to challenge negative traditions, and create to new ones.

Challenges

Culture

Negative

Every fairy tale offers the potential to surpass present limits, so in a sense the fairy tale offers you freedoms that reality denies.

Fairy Tale

Limits

Reality

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Age

America

Art

Atrocities

Attitude

Away From You

Betrayal

Bills

Book

Born

Causes

Challenges

Change

Character

Country

Crime

Culture

Destiny

Dies

Different

Dream

Exile

Expectations

Fairy Tale

Fate

Feelings

Fiction

Giving

Heart

Historical

Home

Honest

Honesty

Hurt

Imagination

Independent

Individual

Infidelity

Innocent

Inspirational

Intellectual

Iran

Islamic

Issues

Judging

Land

Limits

Literature

Littles

Lonely

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Quotes by Azar Nafisi

Azar Nafisi

A bad author can take the most moral issue and make you want to just never, ever think about that moral issue.

America was based on a poetic vision. What will happen when it loses its poetry?

Art is no longer snobbish or cowardly. It teaches peasants to use tractors, gives lyrics to young soldiers, designs textiles for factory women’s dresses, writes burlesque for factory theatres, does a hundred other useful tasks. Art is as usueful as bread.

Basically, fundamentalism is a modern phenomenon. In the same way that Hitler evoked a mythological religion of German purity and the glory of the past, the Islamists use religion to evoke emotions and passions in people who have been oppressed for a long time in order to reach their purpose.

Do not, under any circumstances, belittle a work of fiction by trying to turn it into a carbon copy of real life; what we search for in fiction is not so much reality but the epiphany of truth.

Empathy lies at the heart of Gatsby, like so many other great novels-the biggest sin is to be blind to others problems and pains. Not seeing them means denying their existence.

Every culture has something to be ashamed of, but every culture also has the right to change, to challenge negative traditions, and create to new ones.

Every fairy tale offers the potential to surpass present limits, so in a sense the fairy tale offers you freedoms that reality denies.

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