Hanif Kureishi Quotes

Hanif Kureishi — English Playwright born on December 05, 1954,

Hanif Kureishi, CBE is a British Pakistani playwright, screenwriter, filmmaker and novelist. In 2008, The Times included Kureishi in their list of "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945"... (wikipedia)

I am determined to live without illusions. I want to look at reality straight. Without hiding.

I guess writing is a kind of therapy in the sense that there are things you need to say and you say them, and better out than in.

I'm interested in philosophical psychology, people like Nietzsche, Freud, Alcan, Foucault, Derrida.

You can't spend your life beating yourself up for something that happened yesterday. You die if you don't follow your desire.

'Anna Karenina' is just a story about a woman falling in love with a bloke who is not her husband. It's gossip, rubbish - on the other hand, it's the deepest story there could be about social transgression, about love, betrayal, duty, children.

Hanif Kureishi Quotes

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