We are not by nature cruel.

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• J. M. Coetzee:

  There are works of literature whose influence is strong but indirect because it is mediated through

• J. M. Coetzee:

  The writers who have the deepest influence on one are those one reads in ones more impressionable,

• J. M. Coetzee:

  The most important of all rights is the right to life, and I cannot foresee a day when domesticated

• J. M. Coetzee:

  The mode of consciousness of nonhuman species is quite different from human consciousness.

• J. M. Coetzee:

  The idea of writer as sage is pretty much dead today. I would certainly feel very uncomfortable in

• J. M. Coetzee:

  That has always seemed to me one of the stranger aspects of literary fame: you prove your competenc

• J. M. Coetzee:

  Strictly speaking, my interest is not in legal rights for animals but in a change of heart towards

• J. M. Coetzee:

  My response, a dubious and hesitant one, is that it has been and may continue to be, in the time th

• J. M. Coetzee:

  In order to be cruel we have to close our hearts to the suffering of the other.

• J. M. Coetzee:

  In its conception the literature prize belongs to days when a writer could still be thought of as,