“To be converted you have to destroy your past, destroy your history. You have to stamp on it, you have to say 'my ancestral culture does not exist, it doesn't matter.'”
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Some writers can only deal with childhood experience, because it's complete. For another kind of writer, life goes on, and he's able to keep processing that as well.
I always knew who I was and where I had come from. I was not looking for a home in other people's lands.
It is important not to trust people too much.
If you write a novel alone you sit and you weave a little narrative. And it's O.K., but it's of no account.
