“Life’s big fallacy is security. There is none, ever. And I love that. I love the lack of security, of not knowing where the next buck’s going to come from. I love the need for adaptability. My kids can do anything they like as long as they don’t become lazy. If they become hoods, let them be the hardest working hoods around, not the footsoldiers.”
Alan Duff (b. 1950). New Zealand novelist (famous for Once Were Warriors), newspaper columnist, and polemicist. born and raised in a State housing area in Rotorua, New Zealand.
The Books in Homes scheme, launched in 1995 by Duff with commercial sponsorship and government support, aims to alleviate poverty and illiteracy by providing low-cost books to underprivileged children, thus encouraging them to read. In its first year alone it put about 180,000 new books in the hands of about 38,000 children.