You cannot teach creativity - how to become a good writer. But you can help a young writer discover within himself what kind of writer he would like to be.

It is rare and almost impossible for a novel to have only one narrator.

I think in a country like mine, violence is at the root of all human relations.

Memory is a snare, pure and simple; it alters, it subtly rearranges the past to fit the present.

Science is still only a candle glimmering in a great pitch-dark cavern.

A novel which persuades us of its truth is true however full of lies it may be

The secret to a masterpiece is 10 percent inspiration and 90 percent perspiration.