Quotes J. M. Coetzee

As for September 11, let us not too easily grant the America...

As you see, I do not treat the creation of fiction, that to ...

Elizabeth, Lady C, claims to be writing at the limits of lan...

I am also a representative of the generation in South Africa...

I say that I represent this movement because my intellectual...

I see no marks of Wordsworths style of writing or style of t...

I tend to resist invitations to interpret my own fiction....

If it is indeed impossible - or at least very difficult - to...

If there were a better, clearer, shorter way of saying what ...

In its conception the literature prize belongs to days when ...

In order to be cruel we have to close our hearts to the suff...

My response, a dubious and hesitant one, is that it has been...

Strictly speaking, my interest is not in legal rights for an...

That has always seemed to me one of the stranger aspects of ...

The idea of writer as sage is pretty much dead today. I woul...

The mode of consciousness of nonhuman species is quite diffe...

The most important of all rights is the right to life, and I...

The writers who have the deepest influence on one are those ...

There are works of literature whose influence is strong but ...

We are not by nature cruel....