People don't really know themselves until they're 30. Like most people nowadays, I went to university, got a degree and wandered for a bit. I trained to be a chartered accountant, which I didn't much enjoy, and it was only slowly that the idea of becoming a creative writer gelled.

What I like about writing is the sense of godlike power it gives you.

My first novel was rejected by some of the most eminent publishers in the world. Starting again was a real wrench.

I'm not a prophet I can only use historical reality to come to a view of the future, and my view is that Africa will return to being African and not European. The advent of colonialism was foreign to the country itself, but it will return to what it was before the Europeans arrived.

The best cure for racism is to have somebody shoot at you. Man, it does not matter then what color the arse is that comes to save yours-black or white, you're ready to give it a big fat kiss.

I have never had too much trouble for creative ideas to spring up in my mind.

When I vacate this sack of old bones I won't care what you do with it. Bury or burn it but don't make much fuss.