I was born left-handed, but I was made to use my other hand. When I was writing 'Famished Road,' which was very long, I got repetitive stress syndrome. My right wrist collapsed, so I started using my left hand. The prose I wrote with my left hand came out denser, so later on I had to change it.

What you see is what you make. What you see in a people is what you eventually create in them.

To sustain your belief through situations that completely undermine it is quite something.

Magic becomes art when it has nothing to hide.

We have fallen into this very mean description of humanity. Naturalism in fiction is too reductive in its definition of human beings.

This is what you must be like. Grow wherever life puts you down.

The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering.