Nuruddin Farah Quotes & Sayings

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

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

... "Don't Somalis take the part and mistake it for the whole too?" Jeebleh knew e was in a distancing mode, apart from 'them'. ... — Nuruddin Farah

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. — Nuruddin Farah

Maybe it is in the nature of those who are denied sex or do not have enough of it to be so preoccupied with the subject that they view everything else through its distorted lens. "What — Nuruddin Farah

It's always fallen to women to forge the peace between all these hot-blooded men, always ready to go to war at the slightest provocation....Why do men behave the way they do, warring?"
"What do you think?" he asked.
"Maybe because they've got no sense of grief? — Nuruddin Farah

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

She wondered then if she had ever been on the right track. She had been reticent all her life, because it turned out that her opinions were different from what others expected. 'That proves either that I am an exceptional idiot, or the reverse. — Nuruddin Farah

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

And when there is the possibility of peace, a new fight erupts, based on an old complaint, and which some people call justice adn others madness. — Nuruddin Farah