Athol Fugard

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My essential identity is that of a writer.

Obviously when it comes to the question of telling stories about other people's lives in a situation as political as South Africa, you get to be political.

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Creativity is very selfish. Scandalously so, in fact.

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I'm always in disguise in one form or another in my plays.

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For most of my writing life, I've refused to allow myself to believe that writing was a significant form of action. I always felt very uneasy about the fact that all I did was write in a situation as desperate as apartheid South Africa. Whether I was correct or not is a different issue.

From Athol Fugard