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

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 mind immediately shot to South Africa the moment I sat down to think what I was going to write, what I was going to say. There was no other choice.

Intolerance has always been with us, you know. The moment you have ideology, we have intolerance, whether it's the secular ideology or, you know ideocratic ideology, which always brings with it some kind of intolerance.

Writers who open up horizons for other people are performing a function every bit as important as a consciously politicized writer.

But the ultimate lesson is just sit down and write. That's all.

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