Litnet

"Remainders of the day
locked away inside the
health of a scientific sun."

"Scars are not only physical. Hurt – and therefore, scars – may take emotional, psychological and intellectual forms too." 

"It’s proof that some of the nicest dishes are from uncooked food, simple to make, and so tasty."

"It was in this moment that I realised that I was missing something vital in this whole set-up. That there was a silence between us as well."

"The Gruffalo, Julia’s most recognised title globally, has been translated into 43 languages (excluding the Zulu version currently in translation). Publishers understand that translations of children’s books are very important, for children to identify the words that they hear daily, see the words written down in books in their own language."

"Only do this I tell myself.
Write a poem for yourself.
That narrative is interspersed
With both despair and hope."

"The Seed Thief is one of those rare books which deliver on all fronts and leave you completely satisfied."

"Ladies and gentlemen, something is brewing in South Africa. I do not know the name of that something, but I know that it is irreversible and will continue to brew and boil over, whether we give it permission to do so or not."

"Once upon a time ..."

"Where was the evidence which suggested Van Rooyen's incompetence?"

"The students ... It’s a generation of people who are more and more convinced that they have been sold a lie ... And they are determined to put on the table some of the questions we have put under the carpet for a long time. All those difficult issues we have not tackled enough. And that shift, that cultural shift it seems to me is much more important than anything else, and it signals a new form of politics, at least on campuses."

"In our own skins: Comfortable or itchy, but stuck with it."

"Research into our first people's languages is important for our national heritage."

"A God in Ruins is many things. It is the story of a British family set against the historical background of the past century. It is a novel about war and its aftershocks. It is a fine inquiry into human nature. But above all, it is a declaration of love for literature, its power and its manifold mysteries."

"And I ask: How would you feel, today, if your dad weren’t once allowed into Claremont at night? If you knew that your family had been systematically and purposely undermined for hundreds of years?"

"We have always been very open to criticism within the band, simply because we truly know and trust where we’re coming from with each other."

Humpty Dumpty and Friends, a brand new children’s ballet by Robin van Wyk, opens at Artscape in Cape Town on Tuesday 5 January 2016.

"Search Woolf’s voyage out ..."

"I strongly recommend that all readers encounter for themselves the charming, humane, by turns hilarious and profound tales contained in this collection ..."

Performances take place at Artscape Theatre until December 23 - daily at 10:30.