“I think all of my writing life led up to the writing of 'The Train Driver' because it deals with my own inherited blindness and guilt and all of what being a white South African in South Africa during those apartheid years meant.” ThinkingWritingYearsMy OwnWhiteDealsGuiltTrainSouthDriversSouth AfricaBlindnessWriting LifeApartheid Author:Athol Fugard
“Without white South Africa realizing what it had done - and on the basis of that realization having the courage to ask for forgiveness - there can really be no significant movement.” DoneAsksRealizingWhiteMovementBasesSouthSignificantRealizationSouth AfricaAsking For Forgiveness Author:Athol Fugard
“How thin and insecure is that little beach of white sand we call consciousness. I've always known that in my writing it is the dark troubled sea of which I know nothing, save its presence, that carried me. I've always felt that creating was a fearless and a timid, a despairing and hopeful, launching out into that unknown.” KnowsWritingLittlesFeltDarkWhiteConsciousnessKnownSeaCreatingFearlessBeachSandHopefulInsecureLaunchingWhite Sand Book:Notebooks, 1960-1977 Source: Notebooks, 1960-1977
