“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
“For the bookish, London is a book. For criminals, a map of opportunities. For unpapered immigrants, it is a nest of skinned eyes; sanctioned gunmen ready to blow your head off as you run for a train. When the city of distorting mirrors revealed itself, through its districts and discriminations, I discovered more about London's past as a reworking of my own submerged history.” BookEyeRunningPastOpportunityMy OwnCitiesReadyMirrorsTrainBlowLondonCriminalsDiscriminationImmigrantsMapsNestsSubmergedGunmen Book:London: City of Disappearances Source: London: City of Disappearances
“So far I had been travelling alone with my handbook and my Western Railway timetable: I was happiest finding my own way and did not require a liaison man. It had been my intention to stay on the train, without bothering about arriving anywhere: sight-seeing was a way of passing the time, but, as I had concluded in Istanbul, it was an activity very largely based on imaginative invention, like rehearsing your own play in stage sets from which all the actors had fled.” MenWayPlayActorsMy OwnSeeingStageActivityFindingsSightTrainIntentionWesternInventionPassingPassingsBotherImaginativeArrivingRailwayIstanbulRehearsingTimetablesLiaison Book:The great railway bazaar: by train through Asia Source: The great railway bazaar: by train through Asia
“I'm not a big fan of training, at all. I really don't like it. I've done a few acting classes and I've just hated them. I think they train you to do something, and sometimes you might not be able to break out of it. Acting is lying, and lying is acting. So, I just prefer to read the script and do it my own way.” ThinkingWaySometimesDoneBigsMightAbleLyingMy OwnActingClassBreakFansTrainingTrainScriptsHatedBreak OutActing Classes Author:Callan McAuliffe