Children Are Very Fair Minded, They Really

The Damage Done In One Year Can Sometimes Take Ten Or Twenty Years To Repair.

If I Write Novels In A Country In Which Most Citizens Are Illiterate, Who Then Is My Community?

There's No Lack Of Writers Writing Novels In America, About America. Therefore, It Seems To Me It Would Be Wasteful For Me To Add To That Huge Number Of People Writing Here When There Are So Few People Writing About Somewhere Else.

I Believe In The Complexity Of The Human Story, And That There's No Way You Can Tell That Story In One Way And Say, 'this Is It.' Always There Will Be Someone Who Can Tell It Differently Depending On Where They Are Standing ... This Is The Way I Think The World's Stories Should Be Told: From Many Different Perspectives.

My Weapon Is Literature