Each of my books is different. Deliberately... I wanted to create my society, my people, in their fullness.

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.

I know that an important message is not a novel. To say that we should all be kind to our neighbors is an important statement; it's not a novel.

People create stories create people; or rather stories create people create stories.

Whenever I try to do anything on a typewriter, it's like having this machine between me and the words; what comes out is not quite what would come out if I were scribbling.

In fact, I thought that Christianity was very a good and a very valuable thing for us. But after a while, I began to feel that the story that I was told about this religion wasn't perhaps completely whole, that something was left out.

There is a moral obligation, I think, not to ally oneself with power against the powerless.