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1. "I write essays to clear my mind. I write fiction to open my heart." ~ Taiye Selasi
2. "I wrote fiction during my entire childhood, from age 4 to 18, and started writing plays when I went to Yale and Oxford." ~ Taiye Selasi
3. "I've written fiction for as long as I can remember; it's always been my preferred form of play." ~ Taiye Selasi
4. "The summer I finished my first novel 'Ghana Must Go,' I drove across west Africa: from Accra to Lome to Cotonou to the deliciously named Ouagadougou." ~ Taiye Selasi
5. "The thing that comes most frequently to me on yoga retreats is excruciating pain in my hips." ~ Taiye Selasi
6. "The writer presents himself to the blank page not with an open passport but an open heart." ~ Taiye Selasi
7. "When writing screenplays, it's a matter of remembering to leave off the page anything and everything that doesn't appear on the screen." ~ Taiye Selasi
8. "As a young woman, I had been seeking experience, knowledge, truth, the stuff writers need in their work, but when the artist actually kicked in, I came to understand that in this romantic relationship I was not free to be myself, or to find myself, in order to begin the true work I needed to do." ~ Taiye Selasi
9. "Being a twin, and being my sister's twin, is such a defining part of my life that I wouldn't know how to be who I am, including a writer, without that being somehow at the centre." ~ Taiye Selasi
10. "I live in Rome and five minutes from my flat is a church where you can walk in and see this beautiful Caravaggio. Just the way this man uses dark paint: dark to create dark to create dark, the layering of the darkness in his work. I just race home: I want to create!" ~ Taiye Selasi
11. "I read recently that the problem with stereotypes isn't that they are inaccurate, but that they're incomplete. And this captures perfectly what I think about contemporary African literature. The problem isn't that it's inaccurate, it's that it's incomplete." ~ Taiye Selasi
12. "I'm not sure where I'm from! I was born in London. My father's from Ghana but lives in Saudi Arabia. My mother's Nigerian but lives in Ghana. I grew up in Boston." ~ Taiye Selasi
13. "So often, literature about African people is conflated with literature about African politics, as if the state were somehow of greater import or interest than the individual." ~ Taiye Selasi
14. "That's what makes writer's block so painful. You think the well has run dry, maybe somewhere in the heavens the tap has been turned off. That's beyond frightening." ~ Taiye Selasi
15. "They were doers and thinkers and lovers and seekers and givers, but dreamers, most dangerously of all.They were dreamer-women.Very dangerous women. Who looked at the world through their wide dreamer-eyes and saw it not as it was, "brutal, senseless," etc., but worse, as it might be or might yet become.So, insatiable women. Un-pleasable women." ~ Taiye Selasi
16. "He feels a second pang now for the existence of perfection, the stubborn existence of perfection in the most vulnerable of things and in the face of his refusal-logical-admirable refusal-to engage with this existence in his heart, in his mind. For the comfortless logic, the curse of clear sight, no matter which string he pulls on the same wretched knot: (a) the futility of seeing given the fatality in a place such as this where a mother still bloody must bury her newborn, hose off, and go home to pound yam into paste; (b) the persistence of beauty, in fragility of all places!, in a dewdrop at daybreak, a thing that will end, and in moments, and in a garden, and in Ghana, lush Ghana, soft Ghana, verdant Ghana, where fragile things die." ~ Taiye Selasi
17. "There was the one basic storyline, which everyone knew, with the few custom endings to choose now and again. Basic: humming grandmas and polycentric dancing and drinks made from tree sap and patriarchy." ~ Taiye Selasi
18. "As a novelist, I ask of myself only that I tell the truth and that I tell it beautifully." ~ Taiye Selasi
19. "As a writer, one is obliged to release her words, to let them live in the world on their own." ~ Taiye Selasi
20. "Every Christmas, all around Ghana, there are tons of these parties and they are full of everything that exists in human life in Ghana and worldwide." ~ Taiye Selasi
21. "I was four when I announced my ambition to write, eight when I began publishing such claims." ~ Taiye Selasi
22. "She sleeps like a cocoyam. A thing without senses. She sleeps like his mother, unplugged from the world." ~ Taiye Selasi

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She hoped that her baby was happy and would be waiting for her when she herself left Botswana and went to heaven. Would Mr. J.L.B. Matekoni get round to naming a wedding date before then? She hoped so, although he certainly seemed to be taking his time. Perhaps they could get married in heaven, if he left it too late. That would certainly be cheaper."
Author: Alexander McCall Smith

What Did Taiye Selasi Talk About?

Thin
Wit
Here
Ten
Ear
Ring
Hen
Off
Pain
Per
Self
Mother
Lit
Hey
Heart
Hear
Fiction
Era
Con
Cent
Bee
Africa

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