Azar Nafisi

The people asked to be nonviolent are those with the ability to do the “least amount of damage,” while we don’t call upon people “who have the most power and actually can do the most damage.”

said, “When you’re writing, you’re trying to find out something which you don’t know. The whole language of writing for me is finding out what you don’t want to know, what you don’t want to find out. But something forces you anyway.”

He claims, “You write in order to change the world, knowing perfectly well that you probably can’t, but also knowing that literature is indispensable to the world. . . . The world changes according to the way people see it, and if you alter, even by a millimeter, the way people look at reality, then you can change it.”