I Came To Mozambique In 1986, When

Novels Are . . . An Unsurpassed Form To Understand People.

Many Words Will Be Written On The Wind And The Sand, Or End Up In Some Obscure Digital Vault. But The Storytelling Will Go On Until The Last Human Being Stops Listening. Then We Can Send The Great Chronicle Of Humanity Out Into The Endless Universe.

When Someone Asks Me To List The 10 Best Novels Ever Written, I Always Refuse To Answer.

I Do Not Understand How On Earth You Can Become A Writer Without Seeing The World.

Although Many Of His Other Novels Are Brilliant There Is A Power In 'oliver Twist' That I Believe Dickens Never Managed To Retrieve. It Is As If He Was Sent To This Earth With The Sole Purpose Of Writing This Book.