Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.
You can't change a regime on the basis of compassion. There's got to be something harder.
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.
Disaster is private, in its way, as love is.
A child understands fear, and the hurt and hate it brings.
Fiction is a way of exploring possibilities present but undreamt of in the living of a single life.