Quotes by : Hanif Kureishi

I don’t like being left for long struggling with my dangerous self.

Yet velvet curtains, soft cheese, compelling work and boys who can run full-tilt—it isn't enough. And....

Apparently, now, though, we writers and artists are not allowed to give offence. We must not question,....

Act – make an event. Smash the coordinates and see where the smithereens fly. Let in the madness, and....

There’s a lot of degradation in sex, isn’t there?”“When it’s done right.

Now, watching her sleep, and closing his eyes, he felt, in this particular intimacy - stowed beneath....

He was, after all, just a man. And not merely a narrative.

The writer, indeed every real artist, was the devil, rivalling God in creativity, trying even to surpass....

I admired him more than anyone but I didn't wish him well. It was that I preferred him to me and wanted....

My son, there may be a time when I explain these things to you, because there may be a time when I understand....