The melancholy thing about the world is that it is full of stupid people; and the world is run for the benefit of the stupid and common.

An autobiography can distort; facts can be realigned. But fiction never lies: it reveals the writer totally.

You need someone to see what you've done, to read it and to understand it and to appreciate what's gone into it.

All the details of the life and the quirks and the friendships can be laid out for us, but the mystery of the writing will remain. No amount of documentation, however fascinating, can take us there.

If writers just sit and talk about oppression, they are not going to do much writing.

The melancholy thing about the world is that it is full of stupid people; and the world is run for the benefit of the stupid and common.

Africa has no future.