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

Police work wouldn't be possible without coffee," Wallander said. "No work would be possible without coffee." They pondered the importance of coffee in silence.

When someone asks me to list the 10 best novels ever written, I always refuse to answer.

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

I came to Mozambique in 1986, when I first became involved with Teatro Avenida - a theatre company that stages plays concerned with political and social issues.

We don't have time to argue. Nobody has time.

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