Nobel Prize In Literature Quotes

“Children are born to be free.
Just like birds, there comes a day when they have to leave their nests and fly away to explore new horizons and live their own lives.”
― Mouloud Benzadi

“One of the disadvantages of literary awards is the fact that authors are writing to please a book award committee, rather than to spread the message of love, tolerance, peace, and serve humanity.”
― Mouloud Benzadi

“Literary Awards offer no guarantee that the fame they create will last. Today, not many readers know the authors who won the Nobel prize in literature in the thirties, forties, fifties or even nineties. But, who doesn’t know William Shakespeare, Charles Dickens, Victor Hugo or Jean-Paul Sartre who stood the test of time without winning a prestigious prize?”
― Mouloud Benzadi

“When the lyrical muse sings the creative pen dances.”
― Aberjhani, Splendid Literarium: A Treasury of Stories, Aphorisms, Poems, and Essays

“The majority of politicians, on the evidence available to us, are interested not in truth but in power and maintenance of that power. To maintain that power it is essential that people remain in ignorance, that they live in ignorance of the truth, even the truth of their own lies. What surrounds us therefore is a vast tapestry of lies, upon which we feed.”
― Harold Pinter, Art, Truth & Politics: The Nobel Lecture

“Literary award judges have the power to select a prize winner, granting them fame and potentially turning their book into a bestseller. However, determining the best book of the year remains a subjective endeavor. It is not surprising, then, that different panels consistently choose different winners from the same pool of submissions.”
― Mouloud Benzadi

“Every time someone in town wins a literary award, someone will protest — why him, not me, making a big Fuss?
And every time someone in the world wins a Nobel PRIZE, someone will protest and cry — why them, not US?
Envy never wins the PRIZE.”
― Mouloud Benzadi

“There is in Albert Camus’ literary craftsmanship a seductive intelligence that could almost make a reader dismiss his philosophical intentions if he had not insisted on making them so clear.”
― Aberjhani, Illuminated Corners: Collected Essays and Articles Volume I.

“Some have speculated that the way [Albert] Camus died made his theories on absurdity a self-fulfilling prophecy. Others would say it was the triumphant meaningful way he lived that allowed him to rise heroically above absurdity.”
― Aberjhani, Illuminated Corners: Collected Essays and Articles Volume I.

“No blasphemy harms Islam and Muslims so much as the call for murdering a writer”
― Naguib Mahfouz

“Give AI the right to perform any task that a human editor normally performs” in the realm of writing. These include drafting, proofreading, rephrasing, suggesting improvements in clarity or tone, identifying inconsistencies, proposing titles, summarizing content, and recommending structural edits. All of these are traditional editorial tasks, and there is no reason AI should be excluded from doing the same.”
― Mouloud Benzadi

“A true winner is not someone who has won an award, but someone who has left an indelible mark on the world.”
― Mouloud Benzadi

“Now, let’s imagine that we have been condemned for life to making, year in year out a burdensome and nearly impossible decision to which the world increasingly and inexplicably ascribes a crazy importance. How do we go about it? We look for some simple, rapid, and broadly acceptable criteria that will help us get this pain out of the way. And since, as Borges himself noted, aesthetics are difficult and require a special sensibility and long reflection while political affiliations are easier and quickly grasped, we begin to identify those areas of the world that have grabbed public attention, perhaps because of political turmoil or abuses of human rights; we find those authors who have already won a huge level of respect and possibly major prizes in the literary communities of these countries and who are outspokenly committed to the right side of whatever political divide we’re talking about, and we select them.”
― Tim Parks, Where I'm Reading From: The Changing World of Books

“It's not the awards and prizes that add value to one's work, it's the work that adds value to the awards and prizes.”
― Abhijit Naskar

“Neka mi samo niko ne kaže za nekog: nevin je. Samo to ne. Jer ovde nema nevinih. Niko ovde nije slučajno. Je li prešao prag ove Avlije, nije on nevin. Skrivio je nešto, pa
ma to bilo u snu. Ako ništa drugo, majka mu je, kad ga je
nosila, pomislila nešto rđavo. Svaki, dabogme, kaže da nije kriv, ali za toliko godina koliko sam ovde, ja još nisam našao da je neko bez razloga i bez neke krivice doveden. Ko ovde dođe, taj je kriv, ili se makar očešao o krivca. Phi! Pustio sam ih dosta, i po naredbi i na svoju odgovornost, da. Ali kriv je bio svaki. Ovde nevinog čoveka nema. Ali ima ih na hiljade krivih koji nisu ovde i nikad neće ni doći, jer kad bi svi krivi dospeli ovamo, ova bi
Avlija morala biti od mora do mora. Ja ljude znam, krivi su svi, samo nije svakom pisano da ovde hleb jede.”
― Ivo Andrić, Prokleta avlija

“To excuse one for human assistance yet condemn another for AI assistance is a serious mistake the literary world is making — one that future generations will not forgive.
AI will, without doubt, be recognized as a legitimate part of the creative process.
And when that time comes, those future generations will look back and measure the damage caused by today’s double standards — the barriers that silenced authentic voices and denied deserving writers recognition and opportunity simply for using technology to express their feelings, share their visions, and communicate their experiences with the world.”
― Mouloud Benzadi

“The Nobel Prize reminds us that true honour is never shaped by power, popularity, or predictions. The unexpected can prevail — just as a powerless Venezuelan opposition leader rose over the world’s most dominant figure, Donald Trump.”
― Mouloud Benzadi

“When hate poisons a mind,
it does not kill it. It turns it into a dangerous, poisonous mind;
insensitive, ruthless, and blind,
ready to sting and harm mankind.”
― Mouloud Benzadi

“The letters dance before my eyes. Who am I?”
― Patrick Modiano, Rue des boutiques obscures

“Hutte was always saying that, in the end, we are all "beach men" and that "the sand"--I am quoting his own words-- keeps the traces of our footsteps only a few moment”
― Patrick Modiano, Rue des boutiques obscures

“This figure, which gave a clear meaning to the daily spectacle that everyone in town had in front of their eyes, disconcerted them even more. Up to then people had merely complained about a rather disgusting accident. Now they saw that there was something threatening in this phenomenon, the extent and origin of which was not yet clear to them.”
― Camus Albert

“but he could not believe that the plague might really get a hold of a town where you could still find humble civil servants who devoted their free moments to honourable obsessions. More exactly, he could not imagine how such obsessions fitted into the context of the plague, and so concluded that, in practical terms, the plague had no future among the people of our town.”
― Albert Camus

“You have to live your life if you’re going to do original work. Your work will come out of an authentic life ...”
― Louise Glück

“When the pirate Sir Francis Drake attacked Riohacha in the sixteenth century Úrsula Iguarán's great-great-grandmother became so frightened with the ringing of alarm bells and the firing of cannons that she lost control of her nerves and sat down on a lighted stove. The burns turned her into a useless for the rest of her days.”
― Gabriel García Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude

“همین جرقه های خرد حیاط مدرسه آدم را از کوره در بر می برد، همین اولین کلمه های تکان دهنده و عجیب آدمهاست که هیچ وقت نمی شود فراموش کرد، چرا که اتفاقات بعد، نمک روی زخم اند.”
― Ivo Andrić, The Woman from Sarajevo

“A writer who transitions from their native language to another is like a tropical plant lifted from warm soil into the chilly ocean winds of winter – bending, trembling, and struggling not to wither. To survive in the realm of literature, you ought to be a fierce fighter.”
― Mouloud Benzadi