We wasted a lot of creative energy in that immediate post colonial era, when there was a struggle between, you know, the Cold War between the capitalism and communism. Many writers just wasted their energy and their talent because they want to be ideologically correct and of course all they produced was propaganda.

And I believe that the best learning process of any kind of craft is just to look at the work of others.

I believe that each writer must decide in which language he or she is most comfortable.

If you are corrupt and you have extra cash you are able to shut the mouth of your accuser and they will be silenced.

I happen to be unfortunately temperamental. No, my temperament is also, what you describe to rainfalls, the will of society, to combat a number of contradictions. That happens to be my creative temperament.

My definition of slavery is the deprivation of human volition, any form of relationship between two peoples which is based on the deprivation of volition of one side.

Writers are human. I shudder to think how I must sometimes appear to others.