For me Oliver Twist is a political novel. It is a furious critique of the treatment of orphans and poor children who were forced to spend their early….

I am fascinated by all the new technology that creates places for us to meet in what is called cyberspace. I understand what it must have meant for t….

Each person searches for the most beautiful jump which will be the final before leaving this world..

Africa was the most exotic place I could conceive of - the end of the world - and I knew I would go there one day..

Every secret we confide in another person can be a burden to them.

It struck me as I listened to those two men that a truer nomination (name) for our species than Homo sapiens might be Homo narrans, the storytelling ….

Certainly, I know what it's like to be obsessed. I haven't always been there for my children. They could reach me, but I wasn't always there. But, yo….

I do not understand how on earth you can become a writer without seeing the world..

‎Not having time for a person, not being able to sit in silence together with somebody, that's the same as rejecting them, as being scornful about th….

It was a clear, starry night, dead calm. Whenever I see a sky like that, I wish I could write music.

The evil always comes from details..

Although I never marched through the streets shouting for Mao, I do believe that the liberation of China at the end of the 1940s was a wonderful thin….

You can have more than one home. You can carry your roots with you, and decide where they grow..

Poverty always looks the same, no matter where you come across it. The rich can always express their opulence by varying their lives. Different house….

Police work wouldn't be possible without coffee," Wallander said. "No work would be possible without coffee." They pondered the importance of coffee ….

Sweden is still a very peaceful country to live in. I think that people in Britain have created this mythology about Sweden, that it's a perfect demo….

Novels are . . . an unsurpassed form to understand people..

What annoys a person who suicides? The life itself. Boredom. Tiredness that descends on every morning when you look at yourself at the mirror..

I know paradise has many gates, just as hell does. One has to learn to distinguish between them, or one is lost..

Police work wouldn't be possible without coffee..

I came to Mozambique in 1986, when I first became involved with Teatro Avenida - a theatre company that stages plays concerned with political and soc….