“ I have always moved by intuition alone. I have no system, literary or political. I have no guiding political idea. ”

“ What I felt was, if you spend your life just writing fiction, you are going to falsify your material. And the fictional form was going to force you to do things with the material, to dramatize it in a certain way. I thought nonfiction gave one a chance to explore the world, the other world, the world that one didn't know fully. ”

“ What was past was past. I suppose that was the general attitude. ”

“ Some writers can only deal with childhood experience, because it's complete. For another kind of writer, life goes on, and he's able to keep processing that as well. ”

“ The world is always in movement. ”

“ It's very attractive to people to be a victim. Instead of having to think out the whole situation, about history and your group and what you are doing... if you begin from the point of view of being a victim, you've got it half-made. I mean intellectually. ”

“ Home is, I suppose just a child's idea. A house at night, and a lamp in the house. A place to feel safe. ”

“ I read many things. I read to fill in my knowledge of the world. ”

“ When I learnt to write I became my own master, I became very strong, and that strength is with me to this very day. ”

“ It is important not to trust people too much. ”