The problem with silence is that we know exactly what it will be like.quote by: Hanif Kureishi
quoted: manic artwork
[...] You can never know what your words might turn out to mean for yourself or for someone else; or what the world they make will be like. Anything could happen. The problem with silence is that we know exactly what it will be like.
taken from: kureishi's essay called 'Loose tongues and liberty'
about the quoted person:Pakistani/British playwright, screenwriter, novelist, short story writer and filmmaker. he mostly writes about topics like race, nationalism, immigration, and sexuality and his writings often deal with the darker aspects of human nature and the unseen struggles of those living on the fringes of society.
Kureishi was born in Bromley, Kent in 1954 and read philosophy at King's College, London. His first play, 'Soaking the Heat', was performed at the Royal Court Theatre in London in 1976 and was followed in 1980 by 'The Mother Country', for which he won the Thames TV Playwright Award.
His screenplay for the film 'My Beautiful Laundrette', directed by Stephen Frears, was nominated for an Academy Award. The film was critically acclaimed for its sensitive depiction of a homosexual relationship between a gay skinhead and a young Asian man.
Kureishi's first novel was the semi-autobiographical 'The Buddha of Suburbia', published in 1990. The novel describes 'thew protagonist's struggle for social and sexual identity, a comic coming-of-age novel and a satirical portrait of race relations in Britain during the 1970s.
Hanif Kureishi's latest work is the play 'Venus' (2007).
