I think writers are not only writers, they are also citizens.

What a country needs to do is be fair to all its citizens - whether people are of a different ethnicity or gender.

My weapon is literature

An old woman is always uneasy when dry bones are mentioned in a proverb

If a child washed his hands, he could eat with kings.

I am not an early-morning person; I don't like to get out of bed, and so I don't begin writing at five A.M., though some people, I hear, do. I write once my day has started. And I can work late into the night, also.

A budding writer wants to be encouraged.