At my age it is unseemly to be pessimistic.

Naguib Mahfouz
Profession: Novelist
Nationality: Egyptian

Some suggestions for you :
Winning Nobel imposed on me a lifestyle to which I am not used and which I would not have preferred.
My wife thought I deserved it, but I always thought the Nobel a Western prize.
The Koran and the laws of all civilized nations legislate against the vilification of religions.
If the urge to write should ever leave me, I want that day to be my last.