Best 7 quotes of Nuruddin Farah on MyQuotes

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.