Writers should provoke disagreement.

When I learnt to write I became my own master, I became very strong, and that strength is with me to this very day.

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

Some lesser husbands built a latrine on the hillside.

All the things that were read to me by my father were stories about things becoming all right.

Africa has no future.

One always writes comedy at the moment of deepest hysteria.