From Ernest Hemingway's stories I learned to listen within my stories for what went unsaid by my characters.

In a certain sense a writer is 'selected' by his subject - his subject being the consciousness of his own era.

If I dreamt this, while walking, walking in the London streets, the subconscious of each and every other life, past and present, brushing me in passing, what makes it real? Writing it down.

Censorship may have to do with literature; but literature has nothing whatever to do with censorship.

Perhaps the best definition of progress would be the continuing efforts of men and women to narrow the gap between the convenience of the powers that be and the unwritten charter.

If one will always have to feel white first, and African second, it would be better not to stay on in Africa

I don't think I am a citizen of the world; I am very much a citizen of my own country. But my own country is closely related to other parts of the world and influenced by what happens there.