I'm Cherokee, and there were times when social expansion was something that is needed by a cultural group or a national group.
I like to be able to raise people's consciousness, yes. And to remind that those of us involved in the receiving end of the oppression, we have a duty.
Never have I found the limits of the photographic potential. Every horizon, upon being reached, reveals another beckoning in the distance. Always, I am on the threshold.
A subject which at first glance seems quite removed from the undeclared concern of the book can encapsulate that concern.
I was brought up largely by my grandfather because my father only returned from a prisoner-of-war camp in 1947 and worked in the nearest small town, so I hardly ever saw him.
Places seem to me to have some kind of memory, in that they activate memory in those who look at them.
Where I grew up, in a remote village at the back of a valley, the old still thought the dead needed attending to - a notion so universal, it's enscribed in all religions. If you didn't, they might exact revenge upon the living.
I'm not so sure that horror should be dismissed as something less than literature.
I've got lots of books sitting here that have never been published because nobody could make any marketing sense of them.
Quite frankly, I think political correctness is the worst form of censorship. You're not allowed to speak your mind unless you're black, or unless you're a terrorist, or unless you're an Arab or a minority people. Then you can say what you like. But ...
This first print run of the first edition of my first novel, 'When The Lion Feeds.' back in 1964, is so rare it can fetch several thousand pounds at auction. I always wanted to be an author, and I decided to write about what I knew.
The really disturbing thing about Somalia is that in a country where there are few economic opportunities, pirates are perceived as glamorous and are held in awe by young boys who aspire to their lifestyle.
People don't really know themselves until they're 30. Like most people nowadays, I went to university, got a degree and wandered for a bit. I trained to be a chartered accountant, which I didn't much enjoy, and it was only slowly that the idea of bec...
As regards to personal safety, you do have to be careful not to put yourself at risk when travelling in South Africa. You don't want to go out exploring at night, for example.
My first novel was rejected by some of the most eminent publishers in the world. Starting again was a real wrench.
I know it's politically incorrect but I enjoy things like the kick boxing and cock fighting.
I have never had too much trouble for creative ideas to spring up in my mind.
I write my books in my head, and not in a specific study with a view. The view is from my inner eyes.
I grew up in Rhodesia on my father's ranch and every year he used to take us on safari in some remote area of the wilderness.
They say if you drink Zambezi water with your mother's milk, you are always a slave of Africa, and I am.
Cape Town's beaches are superb and while the water on the Atlantic side is damn cold, it's very pleasant on the other side. Bring your golf clubs if you play - Cape Town has some fabulous golf courses.
