What you must accept is that your life is not going to be the same while you are writing.

People from different parts of the world can respond to the same story if it says something to them about their own history and their own experience.

There is no story that is not true, [...] The world has no end, and what is good among one people is an abomination with others.

I think once you have done all you can to a manuscript, let it find its way in the world.

Democracy is not something you put away for ten years, and then in the 11th year you wake up and start practicing again. We have to begin to learn to rule ourselves again.

What you must accept is that your life is not going to be the same while you are writing.

It is the storyteller who makes us what we are, who creates history. The storyteller creates the memory that the survivors must have - otherwise their surviving would have no meaning.