I tell younger writers that indeed it is devastating to be rejected. You feel like the bottom dropped out of your world.

In every conceivable manner, the family is link to our past, bridge to our future.

Beginning writers must appreciate the prerequisites if they hope to become writers. You pay your dues - which takes years.

In the bush, trust no one you don't know.

In all of us there is a hunger, marrow-deep, to know our heritage, to know who we are and where we came from.

In all of us there is a hunger, marrow-deep, to know our heritage- to know who we are and where we have come from. Without this enriching knowledge, there is a hollow yearning. No matter what our attainments in life, there is still a vacuum, an emptiness, and the most disquieting loneliness.

If you need to know history, the real story of those before you, then you should go to the library and read newspaper clippings of someone like Muhammad Ali every day, then it might giver you some understanding of the man.