One of the agonies of being an author is to know when to stop writing.

I'm not very much of a reader really, because I find much of it very bad, very uninteresting, very speculative.

Each person searches for the most beautiful jump which will be the final before leaving this world.

One of the agonies of being an author is to know when to stop writing.

At the time of independence in 1975, Mozambique was extremely poor. Many Portuguese residents abandoned the country, leaving only a handful of well-educated Mozambicans to try to run the country.

For me Oliver Twist is a political novel. It is a furious critique of the treatment of orphans and poor children who were forced to spend their early lives in ghastly institutions.

It struck me as I listened to those two men that a truer nomination (name) for our species than Homo sapiens might be Homo narrans, the storytelling person. What differentiates us from animals is the fact that we can listen to other people’s dreams, fears, joys, sorrows, desires and defeats–and they in turn can listen to ours.