Quote by Austin Clarke

"The task of the excellent teacher is to stimulate 'apparently ordinary' people to unusual effort. The tough problem is not in identifying winners: it is in making winners out of ordinary people."

"A writer must refuse to allow himself to be turned into an institution."

"Fiction allows us to slide into other skins and to have adventures that are not only imaginative but deeply empathetic."

"The Caribbean is not just a place; it's a state of mind."

"Power without control is just destruction."

"Power is not about control, it's about influence"

"The world doesn't need me to be the hero. It just needs me to be dangerous."

"The claws come out when I need them to."