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.
More Quotes by Taiye Selasi
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.
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.
When writing screenplays, it's a matter of remembering to leave off the page anything and everything that doesn't appear on the screen.
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.
The thing that comes most frequently to me on yoga retreats is excruciating pain in my hips.
The big ideas always come in flashes. I don't really craft stories that much. I genuinely don't know where these people come from, and I've often wondered if writing is just a socially acceptable form of madness.