Making A Book Is Such

I Had No Student Friends To Talk To About Literature. My Tutor Was A Really Nice Man, Very Charming - But He Had No Literary Judgment.

Nothing Was Made In Trinidad.

Africa Is Not A Fun Place, You Know. A Fun Place Is Somewhere That Lifts The Spirits, That Cossets The Senses. I Don't Think That Can Be Said Of The Africa I Traveled In.

Great Writing Can Be Done In Biography, History, Art.

To This Day, If You Ask Me How I Became A Writer, I Cannot Give You An Answer. To This Day, If You Ask Me How A Book Is Written, I Cannot Answer. For Long Periods, If I Didn't Know That Somehow In The Past I Had Written A Book, I Would Have Given Up.