As Long As One People Sit On

Each Of My Books Is Different. Deliberately... I Wanted To Create My Society, My People, In Their Fullness.

If I Write Novels In A Country In Which Most Citizens Are Illiterate, Who Then Is My Community?

In America There Is Really Very Little Knowledge Of The Literature Of The Rest Of The World. Of The Literature Of Latin America, Yes, But That's Not All That Different In Inspiration From That Of America, Or Of Europe. One Must Go Further. You Don't Even Have To Go Too Far In Terms Of Geography - You Can Start With The Native Americans And Listen To Their Poetry.

My Weapon Is Literature

A Child Cannot Pay For Its Mother’s Milk.