I don't really consider myself a novelist, it just came out purely by accident.
The writer is the visionary of his people... He anticipates, he warns.
Writers - human. I shudder to think how I must sometimes appear to others.
Mythology can be used, and has been used, even to re-state, you know, the very urgent problems of the world.
There is something really horrific for any human being who feels he is being consumed by other people.
I never hesitated, as a student, in embracing the necessity of violence. In South Africa, I didn't just accept it; I looked forward to it as a mission.