Alexandra Fuller

Mostly, I would like people to ask other writers about the craft of their writing so we could learn from one another.…

— Alexandra Fuller

“Things get worse. When Mum is drugged and sad and singing tunes from the Roger Whittaker album every night, that is one…

— Alexandra Fuller

You can't rewind war. It spools on, and on, and on, looping and jumping, distorted and cracked with age, and the stories…

— Alexandra Fuller

The rains are rhythmic, coming religiously in the afternoons (after lunch has been eaten but before tea, so that the nights are…

— Alexandra Fuller

“Well-bred' ensured buckled noses, high-arched feet, a predisposition to madness, and ... an innate belief in our own unquestioning superiority.”

— Alexandra Fuller

In ways I don't entirely have the words for, an experience, thought or a lesson isn't real for me until I've written…

— Alexandra Fuller

“...."The mind I love must have wild places: a tangled orchard where damsons drop in heavy grass, an overgrown little wood, a…

— Alexandra Fuller

For me, writing is really an agony. I feel as if I have a huge, luminous idea that has the potential to…

— Alexandra Fuller

Marriage is the trickiest and most basic contract that we have.

— Alexandra Fuller

Being a white southern African who saw the transition from Rhodesia to Zimbabwe, the sense of being an outsider was absolutely instilled…

— Alexandra Fuller

The land itself, of course, was careless of its name. It still is. You can call it what you like, fight all…

— Alexandra Fuller

I don't know if it's just my age or the climate or the high altitude or some of those old-cowboy values rubbing…

— Alexandra Fuller

I grew up in southern Africa but was born in England, so my family was afflicted with the stiff upper lip of…

— Alexandra Fuller

The most basic human impulse is toward entropy and laziness. The less we have to do to grow spiritually, the more likely…

— Alexandra Fuller

Everyone says marriage is hard work, but they don't tell you that actually being yourself and respecting yourself is hard work.

— Alexandra Fuller

That's the advantage of being a writer: No matter what happens, as long as you survive it, it goes into the work.

— Alexandra Fuller

The only process that comes close to the process of writing a whole book, in my experience, is childbirth. There is this…

— Alexandra Fuller

I have heard over and over again that the drilling business is a dangerous business, and death is an expected part of…

— Alexandra Fuller

I'm a working writer; this is my job. So it matters to me that it's good. I sweat over every word. I…

— Alexandra Fuller

Surely until all of us own and honor one another's dead, until we have admitted to our murders and forgiven one another…

— Alexandra Fuller

I remember Karoi as a very hot, flat place, but in reality, it is all hills. We just lived next to an…

— Alexandra Fuller

“Once, I discovered the skulls of two impala rams, their horns locked into an irreversible figure-of-eight; the two animals had been trapped…

— Alexandra Fuller

You can have an intense connection to someone without being a good, lifelong mate for him. Love is complicated and difficult that…

— Alexandra Fuller

It's probably cliche to say this, but in my experience, people are far more alike than they are dissimilar.

— Alexandra Fuller

“People who are careless of the land and of the creatures and spirits with which we share it are careless of themselves.”

— Alexandra Fuller