Distrusted Quotes

All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree.

Say nothing good of yourself, you will be distrusted; say nothing bad of yourself, you will be taken at your word.

I have always distrusted memoir. I tend to write my memoirs through my fiction. It's easier to get to the truth by not claiming that you are speaking it. Some things can be said in fiction that can never be said in memoir.

The rise to prominence of the Saudi novel in Arabic is the great man-bites-dog of recent world literature. Saudi Arabia is a country without a free press, where European styles and forms are distrusted and where the female half of the population became literate only in this generation.