Home is, I suppose just a child's idea. A house at night, and a lamp in the house. A place to feel safe.

I have trusted to my intuition to find the subjects, and I have written intuitively. I have an idea when I start, I have a shape; but I will fully understand what I have written only after some years.

The biography of a writer - or even the autobiography - will always have this incompleteness.

What was past was past. I suppose that was the general attitude.

Africans need to be kicked, that's the only thing they understand.

If you write a novel alone you sit and you weave a little narrative. And it's O.K., but it's of no account.

Home is, I suppose just a child's idea. A house at night, and a lamp in the house. A place to feel safe.