I consider myself West African, among other cultural identities, and a writer, among other creative ones. — Taiye Selasi Copy Share Image
I've written fiction for as long as I can remember; it's always been my preferred form of play. — Taiye Selasi Copy Share Image
As a writer, one is obliged to release her words, to let them live in the world on their own. — Taiye Selasi Copy Share Image
I was four when I announced my ambition to write, eight when I began publishing such claims. — Taiye Selasi Copy Share Image
The writer presents himself to the blank page not with an open passport but an open heart. — Taiye Selasi Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Being a twin, and being my sister's twin, is such a defining part of my life that I wouldn't know how to… — Taiye Selasi Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The big ideas always come in flashes. I don't really craft stories that much. I genuinely don't know where these people come… — Taiye Selasi Copy Share Image
That's what makes writer's block so painful. You think the well has run dry, maybe somewhere in the heavens the tap has… — Taiye Selasi Copy Share Image
As a young woman, I had been seeking experience, knowledge, truth, the stuff writers need in their work, but when the artist… — Taiye Selasi Copy Share Image
I wouldn't mind my book being called an African novel if it didn't invite lazy readings. — Taiye Selasi Copy Share
“loss” is a notion. No more than a thought. Which one forms or one doesn’t. With words. Such that one cannot lose, nor ever… — Taiye Selasi Copy Share
“Then Ghana, and the smell of Ghana, a contradiction, a cracked clay pot: the smell of dryness, wetness, both, the damp of earth and… — Taiye Selasi Copy Share
What distinguishes [Afropolitans] is a willingness to complicate Africa – namely, to engage with, critique, and celebrate the parts of Africa that mean most… — Taiye Selasi Copy Share
“und dass es in Nordamerika kaum zweieiige Zwillinge gab (ganz anders beispielsweise in Nigeria, wo Zwillinge die Norm waren).�” — taiye selasi Copy Share
“loss” is a notion. No more than a thought. Which one forms or one doesn’t. With words. Such that one cannot lose, nor ever… — Taiye Selasi Copy Share
When I'm working, I'm so narrowly focused on sound, language, rhythm, flow, that I rarely feel the emotion of the text. It's only after… — Taiye Selasi Copy Share
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… — Taiye Selasi Copy Share
“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… — Taiye Selasi Copy Share
The summer I finished my first novel 'Ghana Must Go,' I drove across west Africa: from Accra to Lome to Cotonou to the deliciously… — Taiye Selasi Copy Share
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… — Taiye Selasi Copy Share
The thing that comes most frequently to me on yoga retreats is excruciating pain in my hips. — Taiye Selasi Copy Share
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 Copy Share
