I think they've got 250 languages in Nigeria, and so English is a sort of lingua franca between the 250 languages.

To be in a world which is a hell, to be of that world and neither to believe in or guess at anything but that world is not merely hell but the only possible damnation: the act of a man damning himself. It may be

For a small island, the place is remarkably diverse. Writers tend to see things from their own points of view, looking in one direction very much.

How can you expect to be rescued if you don’t put first things first and act proper?

Couldn't a fire outrun a galloping horse?

The skull regarded Ralph like one who knows all the answers and won't tell.

Maybe half a dozen think they are a community, but, in general terms, I think English writers tend to face outwards, away from each other, and write in their own patch, as it were.