Quotes About Hisham Matar

I am longing to see Libya rejoin the world as the internationalist Mediterranean country that it was.

I've always said - I've always said I'm not, by temperament, a romantic about revolutions or given to revolutions. I've always thought that they are not the ideal way to change.

I am terribly interested in the paragraph: the paragraph as an object, the construction, and the possibilities of what a paragraph can do.

In 2006, I published my first novel, 'In the Country of Men.' The publication of the book gave me a bigger platform to speak about my father's abduction and Libya's human-rights record.

My parents left Libya in 1979, escaping political repression, and settled in Cairo. I was nine.

I sometimes wonder if I would have become a writer if what happened to my father hadn't happened.

There's always a problem when you write, something you're trying to resolve, and sometimes a view can be inspiring.

When I first began writing In the Country of Men all I had was the voice of the protagonist. He intrigued me and my desire to want to know him and his world became almost compulsive.

I've never been particularly interested in genre distinctions. They seem to me more useful to a librarian than to a writer.

Encountering our dialect during those years was always disconcerting, provoking in me, and with equal force, both fear and longing.

Had the pain not been so precise I would have asked To which of my sorrows should I yield.