Writing Is Making Sense Of Life.

Certainly The People Who Are Close To Me Are Happier. They Feel Freer.

In A Country Like South Africa, Writers Have Nuisance Value, Because Those Of Us Who Have Become Known Overseas Have Certainly Helped To Inform People About What Life Is Like There.

Well, You Know, In The Fundamentalist Milieu Of The Afrikaners, There Was A Sense That They Were A Chosen People, That They Were Bringing Civilization To The Blacks.

Fiction Is A Way Of Exploring Possibilities Present But Undreamt Of In The Living Of A Single Life.

I Cannot Live With Someone Who Can't Live Without Me.