Alaa Al Aswany Quotes

The concept of the benevolent dictator, just like the concepts of the noble thief or the honest whore, is no more than a meaningless fantasy.

Alaa Al Aswany

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• I've always loved massive worlds, whether in fantasy or science fiction. I like the idea of making my own rules as well as utilizing everything that I love or inspires me. It's very freeing to know you can write a story that can be as big as your own imagination.

  

  Victoria Aveyard
  • Science
  • Like
  • Imagination

• Here's the thing, for me at least: this is a huge genre now. It wasn't always so. Not so many years ago, it wasn't so. There is a tremendous diversity in fantasy today.

  

  R. A. Salvatore
  • Diversity
  • Fantasy
  • Genre

• Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • World
  • Society
  • Exists

• When you consider the concept of vampirism, it is inherently part of a Western culture.

  

  Park Chan-wook
  • Culture
  • You
  • Concept

• Fantasy is sort of a blank slate that everybody can project their own culture onto. Everybody can read it in their own way.

  

  D. B. Weiss
  • Culture
  • Way
  • Fantasy

• With epic fantasy, there is a tendency for it to be quintessentially conservative in that its job is to restore what is perceived to be out of whack.

  

  N. K. Jemisin
  • Job
  • Fantasy
  • Conservative

• I've read every single fantasy novel there is. I mean, I would challenge a lot of people to read more fantasy novels than I have.

  

  Felicia Day
  • People
  • Single
  • Challenge

• I love the concept of community energy.

  

  Ed Rendell
  • Energy
  • Community
  • Concept

• I've had a love affair with the desert ever since I can remember. No matter what I wrote - contemporary romance, spy thriller, high fantasy - it was going to have a desert in it.

  

  Rae Carson
  • Remember
  • Desert
  • Fantasy

• When I do a horror or a fantasy film it all boils down to something in the script that surprises me. It could be a big thing or a small moment. If it's there I'll do it.

  

  Lance Henriksen
  • Film
  • Moment
  • Fantasy

• The whole concept of the devil is a metaphor on one level.

  

  Taylor Hackford
  • Devil
  • Level
  • Concept

• Wizards was my homage to Tolkien in the American idiom. I had read Tolkien, understood Tolkien, and wanted to do a sort of fantasy for American kids, and that was Wizards.

  

  Ralph Bakshi
  • Kids
  • American
  • Fantasy

• When we talk about dystopias, especially in young adult fiction, a lot of them are essentially science fictional futures. They aren't necessarily tied to the traditional concept of dystopia. And so in that space, my impression is that kids love reading about weird, wild, adventurous places, and dystopia fits that bill.

  

  Paolo Bacigalupi
  • Kids
  • Weird
  • Impression

• No dictator, no invader, can hold an imprisoned population by force of arms forever.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Forever
  • Force
  • Dictator

• I do not find the concept of consorting with unknown persons appealing.

  

  Patricia Marx
  • Find
  • Unknown
  • Concept

• As an adolescent I wrote comic books, because I read lots of them, and fantasy novels set in Malaysia and Central Africa.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Fantasy
  • Africa
  • Adolescent

• Theatricality is a concept. It's not a specific language.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • Language
  • Concept
  • Specific

• The blurring of fantasy and reality is something that the Japanese herald in their life, in their day-to-day commercialism.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Life
  • Reality
  • Japanese

• Slipstream fiction is usually defined as fiction with a contemporary setting in which story elements are mimetic (that is, seem real) - except for one or two eerie strangenesses. Unlike outright fantasy, these are not explained or integrated into an alternate-reality setting.

  

  Nancy Kress
  • Real
  • Reality
  • Story

• My position and the state will never allow me to become a dictator, but an authoritarian style of rule is characteristic of me, and I have always admitted it. You need to control the country, and the main thing is not to ruin people's lives.

  

  Alexander Lukashenko
  • Country
  • Position
  • Dictator

• In the world there is, parallel to the force of death and constraint, an enormous force of persuasion that is called culture.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Culture
  • Persuasion
  • Force Of Death

• Intellect is the soul of man, the only immortal part of him.

  

  Thomas Carlyle
  • Intellect
  • Immortal
  • Soul Of Man

• The only interesting thing that can happen in a Swiss bedroom is suffocation by feather mattress.

  

  Dalton Trumbo
  • Interesting
  • Happen
  • Bedroom

• The concept of the benevolent dictator, just like the concepts of the noble thief or the honest whore, is no more than a meaningless fantasy.

  

  Alaa Al Aswany
  • Fantasy
  • Concept
  • Dictator