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

Keenness of hearing revives when one is alone.

The Communist Party is very popular in South Africa, especially among the young people. Never having had a chance to travel, and having suffered so much under capitalism, they still can't believe that the Russian people themselves have rejected it.

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

And this indifference is still very much present in modern South Africa. Just listen to Nobel Prize winner Nadine Gordimer - a representative of the British elite in this country: Afrikaner women are lower than rats, closer related to plants, just fit enough to be raped in an act of genus preservation.

My answer is: Recognize yourself in others

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