I Have Learned Since That

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

Exile As A Mode Of Genius No Longer Exists; In Place Of Joyce We Have The Fragments Of Work Appearing In Index On Censorship.

Learning To Write Sent Me Falling, Falling Through The Surface Of The South African Way Of Life.

A Child Understands Fear, And The Hurt And Hate It Brings.

A Writer Doesn't Only Need The Time When He's Actually Writing - He Or She Has Got To Have Time To Think And Time Just To Let Things Work Out. Nothing Is Worse For This Than Society. Nothing Is Worse For This Than The Abrasive, If Enjoyable, Effect Of Other People.