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

Certainly the people who are close to me are happier. They feel freer.

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

I decided that I wanted nothing to do with South African government television while any of my fellow writers were banned and couldn't speak publicly.

I couldn't be sufficiently interested in human beings to be a writer if I had contempt for human beings.

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.

Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.