I am disturbed for instance when I read that a candidate said, 'I will not probe anybody or something like that'. You don't fight corruption by sweeping everything under the carpet, you don't.

The idea of having to make constant reference to politics is anathema to my calling as a writer.

The hand that dips into the bottom of the pot will eat the biggest snail.

Each time I think Ive created time for myself, along comes a throwback to disrupt my private space.

One thing I can tell you is this, that I am not a methodical writer.

There are different kinds of artists and very often, I'll be very frank with you, I wish I were a different kind.

Writers throughout the ages have one weapon, which is literature, but they also have their responsibilities as a citizen when literature does not seem to suffice. I mean, they are not mutually exclusive. One continues to write anyway but if you are called out to demonstrate, if people are being killed in the streets, it's hardly the moment to go for your pen and paper, you know, help in one way or the other.