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I began writing early – very, very early… I was already writing short stories for the radio and selling poems to poetry and art festivals; I was involved in school plays; I wrote essays, so there was no definite moment when I said, ‘Now I’m a writer.’ I’ve always been a writer.

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It’s the place to begin, always — to return to home, literally.
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Looking at faces of people, one gets the feeling there’s a lot of work to be done.
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Don’t take shadows too seriously. Reality is your only safety. Continue to reject illusion.
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A human feast is an indifferent morsel to a god.
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But theater, because of its nature, both text, images, multimedia effects, has a wider base of communication with an audience. That’s why I call it the most social of the various art forms.
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My understanding of the creative process is simply that all cultures and all concerns meet at a certain point, the human point in which everything is related to one another. That has been my creative experience.
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You accept whoever you are interacting with, directly, or indirectly.
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I know there are writers who get up every morning and sit by their typewriter or word processor or pad of paper and wait to write. I don’t function that way. I go through a long period of gestation before I’m even ready to write.
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I consider the process of gestation just as important as when you’re actually sitting down putting words to the paper.
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The man dies in all those that keep silent.
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Very conscious of the fact that an effort was being made to destroy my mind, because I was deprived of books, deprived of any means of writing, deprived of human companionship. You never know how much you need it until you’re deprived of it.
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Mythology can be used, and has been used, even to re-state, you know, the very urgent problems of the world.
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I never hesitated, as a student, in embracing the necessity of violence. In South Africa, I didn’t just accept it; I looked forward to it as a mission.
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