Profession: Author
Nationality: South African
A desert is a place without expectation.
A child understands fear, and the hurt and hate it brings.
The facts are always less than what really happened.
Writing is making sense of life. You work your whole life and perhaps you've made sense of one small area.
Truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.
The very aim and end of our institutions is just this that we may think what we like and say what we think.
The gap between the committed and the indifferent is a Sahara whose faint trails, followed by the mind's eye only, fade out in sand.
The truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.
Power is something of which I am convinced there is no innocence this side of the womb.
The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Sociology extracts it. The writer loses Eden, writes to be read and comes to realize that he is answerable.
Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.
Perhaps the best definition of progress would be the continuing efforts of men and women to narrow the gap between the convenience of the powers that be and the unwritten charter.
There is no moral authority like that of sacrifice.
People give one another things that can't be gift wrapped.
From Ernest Hemingway's stories, I learned to listen within my stories for what went unsaid by my characters.
I cannot live with someone who can't live without me.
