Everyone hasn't got the power to free oneself and go away to another place or country... No one is capable of freeing oneself from society.

- Abdellah Taia

So many people and institutions are against homosexuals that, as a homosexual, you can't waste your time by trying to convince them that you're a goo…

- Abdellah Taia

Many Europeans think that all Moroccans speak French, but no. I had to make an effort to learn it when I studied French literature at the university …

- Abdellah Taia

I hate to express political ideas directly in a book. I don't want my books to be seen as an expression of this or that political idea. At the same t…

- Abdellah Taia

My family spent many years sleeping side by side in the same room. It's important for me to not separate myself from them or to say that I've suffere…

- Abdellah Taia

Any gay person understands at some point that he or she has to disappear, to become invisible. That's very difficult. You somehow have to kill yourse…

- Abdellah Taia

People think that I only write about homosexuality, but that's not true.

- Abdellah Taia

Writing and making films aren't different things to me. Or maybe it has become so, now. Making film is a very long process and you have to be physica…

- Abdellah Taia

I started to write because of my dream to become a filmmaker. I got to know about a film school in Paris and it was my goal to get there. To do that …

- Abdellah Taia