It’s a thing that requires complexity, people’s sexualities are very complex. There can be great desire in submission. It’s the image making and then… - Margie Orford

There was such a sense of liberation and opening that sort of space that had been closed off so completely under Apartheid – no light, no oxygen – it really opened and expanded and into that came so much publishing and writing.

The heart is blind. You can’t love unless you have the heart of a child. It’s beautiful, but it’s the thing that makes you vulnerable. And when this connects with the secrets you hold, it can create a distortion in the psyche.

In fiction you have the mind, the interiority of the person, and the action happening at the same time. But I agree with you, they’re such different forms.