I'm Not Very Much Of A Reader

I'm Not Very Much Of A Reader Really, Because I Find Much Of It Very Bad, Very Uninteresting, Very Speculative.

We Only Have The Past That We Have. Not All Of Our Deeds Were Incorrect.

The Stories I Create Are Never As Awful As Reality.

At The Time Of Independence In 1975, Mozambique Was Extremely Poor. Many Portuguese Residents Abandoned The Country, Leaving Only A Handful Of Well-educated Mozambicans To Try To Run The Country.

I Can Still Remember The Miraculous Feeling Of Writing A Sentence, Then More Sentences, Telling A Story. The First Thing I Wrote Was A One-page Summary Of Robinson Crusoe And I Am So Sorry I Do Not Have It Any More; It Was At That Moment I Became An Author.