You can't be afraid to do good in case evil results.

In a country like South Africa, writers have nuisance value, because those of us who have become known overseas have certainly helped to inform people about what life is like there.

Fiction is a way of exploring possibilities present but undreamt of in the living of a single life.

You can't be afraid to do good in case evil results.

The solitude of writing is also quite frightening. It's quite close to madness, one just disappears for a day and loses touch.

The function of a writer is to make sense of life. It is such a mystery, it changes all the time, like the light.

The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Ideology demands it. Society exacts it.