"I don't see myself as a very important person. But I was the second woman to write a novel in Iran, and I have written most of the novels about Iranian women. In this way, maybe I have a good place in Iranian literature."

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Source : Source: www.parsarts.com

Shahrnush Parsipur

#Writing Quotes #Iran Quotes #Important Quotes

“My father was an all-American football player.”

Source : Interview with Paul Schienberg, psychedonline.com. July 1, 2002.
“I began in an era where four-letter words were not allowed.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Art is a deception that creates real emotions - a lie that creates a truth. And when you give yourself over to that deception, it becomes magic.”
“Murder mysteries are puzzles that are fun to resolve.”

Source : "Face to face with death" by Liz Hoggard, www.theguardian.com. May 22, 2006.
“I was a savage for so many years of my life. There was some seed of determination in me that I was not conscious of. I was mostly consciously getting into trouble and drunk.”
“It was the beginning of film for television. So we had all of these great opportunities. Northwestern was probably the only major film school of its kind at the time that was graduating anybody important.”
“You think my paintings are calm, like windows in some cathedral? You should look again. I'm the most violent of all the American painters. Behind those colours there hides the final cataclysm.”
“How, then, shall God give himself entirely to that one who, besides his God, loves creatures still?”

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