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"Strictly speaking, my interest is not in legal rights for animals but in a change of heart towards animals."
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"Since when has corruption everywhere, homes, streets, offices, become a Nigerian factor."
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"If it is indeed impossible - or at least very difficult - to inhabit the consciousness of an animal, then in writing about animals there is a temptation to project upon them feelings and thoughts that may belong only to our own human mind and heart."
"The idea of writer as sage is pretty much dead today. I would certainly feel very uncomfortable in the role."
"If there were a better, clearer, shorter way of saying what the fiction says, then why not scrap the fiction?"
"The writers who have the deepest influence on one are those one reads in ones more impressionable, early life, and often it is the more youthful works of those writers that leave the deepest imprint."
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