I did not succeed in everything I did. And even where it did seem I was succeeding it was not always the case. The human heart has a million facets.

Such was the love of this grandson for his grandmother that two years after the death of his mother, when she herself fell gravely ill, he vowed to her that someday he would try to tell the world her life story. 'But why?' she asked humbly. 'I'm no one, just a girl from the coast' 'But you are everyone, Grandma,' the young Pramoedya told her. 'You are all the people who have ever had to fight to make this life their own.

Every award for me is important because it means a slap against militarism and fascism in Indonesia.

Let us see whether it is the New Order or me who will be the loser before Indonesian history. I have won. The New Order has fallen and my writings have been translated into 40 languages.

I did not succeed in everything I did. And even where it did seem I was succeeding it was not always the case. The human heart has a million facets.

I happen to be pretty productive when I am in jail. When you are in jail, you have to spend more time with yourself.

At the beginning of all growth, everything imitates.