I speak to the broken halves of all our selves and tell them to embrace, loving the worst in us equally with the best.
J. M. CoetzeeThe writers who have the deepest influence on one are those one reads in ones more impressionable, early life, and often it is the more youthful works of those writers that leave the deepest imprint.
J. M. CoetzeeThat has always seemed to me one of the stranger aspects of literary fame: you prove your competence as a writer and an inventor of stories, and then people clamour for you to make speeches and tell them what you think about the world.
J. M. Coetzee