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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Memory
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm fascinated by how much has changed from one generation to another. There are young people growing up now for whom apartheid is just a distant memory and the idea of military service is an abstract notion.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Literature at its fullest takes human nature as its theme. That's the kind of writing that interests me.
- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020
Perhaps cliche is nothing more than the weight of the past pinning down your mind. In this sense, imaginative freedom is a way of finding the future, though it isn't so easy to do.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
I first went to India because of my interest in yoga, hoping to go to the Iyengar Centre in Pune for a while. That didn't work out, but I ended up on a beach in Goa, writing.
- Book
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've been wanting to write a book about what goes into creating a novel, and the story behind 'A Passage to India' is especially interesting.
- Creative
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- Nov 07, 2020
Unrequited affection is very painful for the lover, but it can have unexpected, creative consequences.
- Everything
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- Nov 07, 2020
Something in a writer's brain needs to watch everything with a detached, amoral eye.
- Moments
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- Nov 07, 2020
There aren't a lot of 'Aha!' moments in writing.
- Believe
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like to believe that if you pay close attention to the sentences as they unfold, they will draw you in rather than pushing you away.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
India I have visited a great many times, though there is a lot about it I will never understand.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most writers battle with periods of being blocked; it's almost an occupational hazard. But in the writing of his last and greatest novel, 'A Passage to India,' E. M. Forster got stuck for nine years.
- Become
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- Nov 07, 2020
South Africa is highly politicised; even small issues become politicised, and it becomes quite bitter.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
I long for a South African society that's free of ideological forces - no society can ever really be free of ideological forces - but I wish it was free of power.
- Early Childhood
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think the impulse took shape in early childhood when I was very ill with lymphoma for a number of years. I spent a lot of time in hospitals and sick-rooms, being read to by various relatives, and I learned to associate books with love and attention.
- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
Any radical change or trauma always makes for interesting subject matter, but then all stories deal, to some extent, with the disjuncture between past and present.
- First
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- Nov 07, 2020
Rian Malan was one of the first younger writers to perceive and write about a darkness in the South African psyche that goes deeper than mere politics. To some extent, that's my territory, too.
- Illusion
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's expected of novels that they should explain the world and create the illusion that things are ultimately logical and coherent. But that's not what I see around me. Often, events remain mysterious and unresolved, and our emotions reach no catharsis.
- Doctor
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wrote large chunks of 'The Impostor' and 'The Good Doctor' on a beach in Goa.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
I go for long walks in Newlands Forest in Cape Town, and I go to the Turkish baths on Sunday mornings.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
For the first five years of my life, things felt pretty good. A lot went wrong after that, family-wise.
- Interact
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not designed to interact with society.
- Night
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- Nov 07, 2020
I try to get going early, on the assumption that the way you begin your day is the way you continue. But certain books only want to be written at night, so there's no hard rule where work is concerned.
- Computers
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- Nov 07, 2020
Stationery gets me excited because it has an individual character, unlike computers, which may be convenient but are generic and bland.
- Out
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm constitutionally incapable of working on planes or trains, and airports are definitely out.
- Book
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- Nov 07, 2020
Writing is very good for household tasks. Because you'd rather fix a dripping tap or paint an old wall - you'd rather do almost anything than sit and write. I have to reach a point of obsession in order to write, and so I find starting a book incredibly difficult.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Yoga helps me with a composed and serene state of mind, which is good for writing.
- Nov 07, 2020
Generally, writers have very uninteresting lives.
- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020
Almost overnight, white people have gone from being very powerful to potentially irrelevant. Their future in South Africa is not what many had envisaged, so it involves a lot of reinvention.
- Gay
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- Nov 07, 2020
Being gay immediately placed me outside the values of the society I was growing up in. Apartheid was a very patriarchal system, so its assumptions seemed foreign to me from the outset. I've always had the advantage of alienation.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020