I'm a perfectly equipped failure.

- Azar Nafisi

You don't read Gatsby, I said, to learn whether adultery is good or bad but to learn about how complicated issues such as adultery and fidelity and m…

- Azar Nafisi

I believe in empathy. I believe in the kind of empathy that is created through imagination and through intimate, personal relationships. I am a write…

- Azar Nafisi

Look at Ayatollah Khomeini's revolution and the slogans that they used: anti-imperialism; anti-colonialism; the struggle of the have-nots against the…

- Azar Nafisi

Every culture has something to be ashamed of, but every culture also has the right to change, to challenge negative traditions, and create to new one…

- Azar Nafisi

Living in the Islamic Republic is like having sex with someone you loathe.

- Azar Nafisi

Only curiosity about the fate of others, the ability to put ourselves in their shoes, and the will to enter their world through the magic of imaginat…

- Azar Nafisi

The existence of the writer is to write, and to write is to tell the truth.

- Azar Nafisi

A novel is not an allegory.... It is the sensual experience of another world. If you don't enter that world, hold your breath with the characters and…

- Azar Nafisi