Writing is making sense of life.

Writing is always a voyage of discovery.

About the joys and the courage, I really don't know what other people think. I just know that I've never left Africa. I've lived there all my life. And one of the wonderful things, in spite of all the terrible things that happen in South Africa, is the way people continue to keep their dignity.

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

Any writer of any worth at all hopes to play only a pocket-torch of light - and rarely, through genius, a sudden flambeau - into the bloody yet beautiful labyrinth of human experience, of being.

in writing, sex doesn't matter; it's the writing that matters.

Writers themselves don't analyze what they do; to analyze would be to look down while crossing a canyon on a tightrope.