My Life Is Short. I Can't Listen

I'm Thought To Be A Tough Writer, But I'm Really A Softie.

If Writers Just Sit And Talk About Oppression, They Are Not Going To Do Much Writing.

I Have Trusted To My Intuition To Find The Subjects, And I Have Written Intuitively. I Have An Idea When I Start, I Have A Shape; But I Will Fully Understand What I Have Written Only After Some Years.

Trinidad May Seem Complex, But To Anyone Who Knows It, It Is A Simple, Colonial, Philistine Society.

I Wish My Prose To Be Transparent—i Don't Want The Reader To Stumble Over Me; I Want Him To Look Through What I'm Saying To What I'm Describing. I Don't Want Him Ever To Say, Oh, Goodness, How Nicely Written This Is. That Would Be A Failure.