Basharat Peer

‘Yes, the gun was from Pakistan, but the stones are our own. That is our only weapon against the occupation.’

Issue 26

John Ryle

‘Bor is a long way from Khartoum – more than 700 miles. There were other hostile groups on the way and precious little food.’

Saïd Sayrafiezadeh

‘My mother and father believe that the United States is destined one day to be engulfed in a socialist revolution.’

Issue 27

Teresa Pàmies

‘I was glad to see General Pavel at your funeral, Father.’

Issue 5

Jonathan Schell

‘We have lived in the shadow of nuclear arms for more than thirty-six years, so it does not seem too soon for us to familiarize ourselves with them - to acquaint ourselves with such matters as the ‘thermal pulse’, the ‘blast wave’, and the ‘three stages of radiation sickness.’’

Issue 20

Salman Rushdie

‘Forested mesas flanked the road to Matagalpa; ahead, the multiform mountains, conical, twisted, sinuous, closed the horizon.’

Issue 76

Philip Pullman

‘It feels like being a child in a room where adults are having a deep and passionate conversation about important things’

Issue 62

Richard Lloyd Parry

Issue 62

Richard Lloyd Parry

‘Everyone I met in West Kalimantan had tales of Dayak magic’.

Issue 68

W.G. Sebald

‘In Vienna I visited none of the sights and spoke not a word to a soul’.

Aman Sethi

‘He said Love Jihad, or the practice of Muslims seducing Hindu girls with the aim of converting them to Islam, was an existential threat to India.’

Jeremy Sheldon

‘Audiences don’t know somebody sits down and writes a picture.’

Issue 115

Francine Prose

‘Feminism is as basic to my sense of self as the fact that I have brown eyes.’

Saïd Sayrafiezadeh

‘He had abandoned me, after all, when I was nine months old, mostly so that he could devote his time, energy and money to the cause of workers’ revolution.’