When the moon is shining the cripple becomes hungry for a walk

The writer cannot expect to be excused from the task of reeducation and regeneration that must be done. In fact, he should march right in front.

There is that great proverb - that until the lions have their own historians, the history of the hunt will always glorify the hunter. That did not come to me until much later. Once I realized that, I had to be a writer. I had to be that historian. It's not one man's job. It's not one person's job. But it is something we have to do, so that the story of the hunt will also reflect the agony, the travail - the bravery, even, of the lions.

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.

A pen on paper is the ideal way for me. I am not really very comfortable with machines; I never learned to type very well.

The damage done in one year can sometimes take ten or twenty years to repair.

The whole idea of a stereotype is to simplify. Instead of going through the problem of all this great diversity - that it's this or maybe that - you have just one large statement; it is this.