I have learned since that sometimes the things we want most are impossible for us. You may long to come home, yet wander forever.

Nothing fades so quickly as what is unchanged.

When I was a child, we seemed to be living in a world remote from the rest of the world. But television has made a great difference to all of us.

when it comes to their essential faculty as writers, all writers are androgynous beings.

Sincerity is never having an idea of oneself.

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.

It's absolutely fatal to your writing to think about how your work will be received. It's a betrayal of whatever talent you have.