When I Vacate This Sack Of Old

I'm Not A Prophet I Can Only Use Historical Reality To Come To A View Of The Future, And My View Is That Africa Will Return To Being African And Not European. The Advent Of Colonialism Was Foreign To The Country Itself, But It Will Return To What It Was Before The Europeans Arrived.

Every Time One Of My Books Sells A Million Copies In Paperback, Pan Macmillan Gives Me A Gold Statuette Of Pan. I Have About 20 Of Them.

I Put My Soul Into Every Book I Write.

I Want To Be Seen As A Good Storyteller. I'm A Manipulator As Well.

I Wanted To Be A Great White Hunter, A Prospector For Gold, Or A Slave Trader. But Then, When I Was Eight, My Parents Sent Me To A Boarding School In South Africa. It Was The Equivalent Of A British Public School With Cold Showers, Beatings And Rotten Food. But What It Also Had Was A Library Full Of Books.