I do not understand how on earth you can become a writer without seeing the world.

The stories I create are never as awful as reality.

We used to send whole flocks of birds shooting out of our mouths and never managed to grab them by their wings.

He was so excessively polite that Wallendar suspected he had endured many humiliations in his life.

I do not understand how on earth you can become a writer without seeing the world.

An oppressed people will always rise.

I can still remember. I was ill, and I was seven, and my father didn't want me to just read children's books. He came with Conan Doyle. I tried, and I liked it. I think the first I read was 'The Sign of the Four'; 'Study in Scarlet' was the next one. Then I guess I stayed home a few extra days from school to read.