If You Write A Novel Alone You

The Europeans Wanted Gold And Slaves, Like Everybody Else; But At The Same Time They Wanted Statues Put Up To Themselves As People Who Had Done Good Things For The Slaves.

I Always Knew Who I Was And Where I Had Come From. I Was Not Looking For A Home In Other People's Lands.

The Reason Is That They Define How I Have Gone About My Business. I Have Trusted To Intuition. I Did It At The Beginning. I Do It Even Now. I Have No Idea How Things Might Turn Out, Where In My Writing I Might Go Next.

One Isn’t Born One’s Self. One Is Born With A Mass Of Expectations, A Mass Of Other People’s Ideas – And You Have To Work Through It All.

It Isn't That There's No Right And Wrong Here. There's No Right.