Anis Quotes & Sayings

Know that whatever God prays to
He asked it to help Him make something of worth.
He woke from His dreams scraped the soil form the spaces inside Himself made you and was happy.
You make the Lord happy. — Anis Mojgani

Contemporary American fiction has become cheap counseling to the bereaved bourgeois. — Anis Shivani

You are quite the beauty. If no one has ever told you that before, know that right now. You are quite the beauty. — Anis Mojgani

What deserves my loyalty, art or prestige? — Anis Shivani

These rituals Rango could not sustain, for he could not maintain the effort to arrive on time since his lifelong habit had created the opposite habit: to elude, to avoid, to disappoint every expectation of others, every commitment, every promise, every crystallization. — Anais Nin

So, try to figure out a way to exit your role in the capitalist representation of the writer and his function in the literary community. The events you ritualistically attend and the collaborations you're expected to be part of, are they good for your soul? If they deaden you, exit. If you feel a weakening of the spirit, exit from anything they call literary community. You'll be better off alone. In other words you have to find yourself first. — Anis Shivani

When I go, bury me with nothing but my own skin. I spent far too many days trying to outrun this thing called mine. So, if I set myself into your arms would you hold me like the earth, quietly? I am yours. Give me a field, give me a big sky. A mountain. Give me your mouth. I'm just looking for a quiet place that I could die inside of. — Anis Mojgani

Writing a successful novel is a great challenge, and you have to be a bit of a poet, a bit of a critic, a bit of a dramatist, a bit of a philosopher, a bit of a social scientist, to pull it off. — Anis Shivani

My heart was too big for my body, so I let it go. — Anis Mojgani

We become extraordinary when we realize how extraordinary our existence is. — Anis Mojgani

Will it make me something? Will I be something? Am I something? And the answer comes, already am, always was, and I still have time to be — Anis Mojgani

So, tell me what my fists keep writing, my fingers, they open up like gates when I write ... — Anis Mojgani

To grow up steeped in these tellings was to learn two unforgettable lessons: first, that stories were not true (there were no "real" genies in bottles or flying carpets or wonderful lamps), but by being untrue they could make him feel and know truths that the truth could not tell him, and second, that they all belonged to him, just as they belonged to his father, Anis, and to everyone else, they were all his, as they were hsi father's, bright stories and dark stories, sacred stories and profane, his to alter and renew and discard and pick up again as and when he pleased, his to laugh at and rejoice in and live in and with and by, to give the stories life by loving them and to be given life in return. Man was the storytelling animal, the only creature on earth that told itself stories to understand what kind of creature it was. The story was his birthright, and nobody could take it away. — Salman Rushdie

I want to remember that the sky is so gorgeously large, I feel stranded beneath it. — Anis Mojgani

The adults prove themselves to be children when they treat criticism as a virus to be exterminated. — Anis Shivani

Believe me when I tell you my soul has squeezed into narrow spaces. — Anis Mojgani

It is better to love every person, than to wait for one person to love you. — Anis Mojgani

Walk through this with me. Through this church birthed of blood and muscle where every move our arms take, every breath we swallow is worship. Bend with me. There are bones in our throats. If we choke it is only on songs. — Anis Mojgani

So when the world knocks at your front door,
clutch the knob and open on up,
running forward into its widespread greeting arms
with your hands before you,
fingertips trembling though they may be. — Anis Mojgani

I want to feel like honey and trombones. I want to feel like honey and trombones — Anis Mojgani

Do not settle for letting these waves settle, or the dust to collect in your veins. — Anis Mojgani

Love is a broken vase whose shape everyone remembers differently. — Anis Mojgani

This universe is a fan of you. Watch the flowers in the morning, how they open towards the same sun that spends it's whole day following you. — Anis Mojgani

Rock out like you get paid to disturb the peace — Anis Mojgani

Will I be something?
Am I something? And the answer comes:
You already are.
You always were.
And you still have time to be. — Anis Mojgani

I know sometimes, that all it takes to be invincible, is to know you are such. — Anis Mojgani

Do not let one moment go by that doesn't remind you that your heart beats 900 times a day, and there are enough gallons of blood to make everyone of you oceans — Anis Mojgani

If we don't understand bad writing, we can't understand good writing. Bad writing is characterized by obfuscation, showboating, narcissism, lack of a moral core, and style over substance. Good writing is exactly the opposite. Bad writing draws attention to the writer himself. — Anis Shivani

What is more important than reading books; is reading people's faces. — Anis Mansour

We are ghosts, hungry for something bigger than what our lips are kissing. — Anis Mojgani

People all over the world come to realize that Hitler was right, since Jews are bloodsuckers ... interested in destroying the whole world which has expelled them and despised them for centuries ... and burnt them in Hitler's crematoria ... one million ... six millions. Would that he had finished it! — Anis Mansour

I want my words and actions to be the quantification of my love. To make tangible the passions in my heart for the world and the people in it. — Anis Mojgani

Stop being part of the social norms of writing and teaching, which then leads to the point, stop being a capitalist person, one who works for a salary to teach writing in a form that's acceptable to capitalism, which then leads further to the point, exit social norms imposed upon you, do not have a lifestyle that requires living by capitalist rules even outside the teaching and practice of writing - which ultimately is the only way to a real literary community, which is based on real art, and you see how impossible a track I'm on? — Anis Shivani

There's beauty in everything, but not everyone is able to feel it. — Anis Mansour

I dream too much, and I don't write enough, and I'm trying to find God everywhere. — Anis Mojgani

You make me feel like honey and trombones. You make me feel like honey and trombones. — Anis Mojgani