A few people have tried to make me see that my writing isn't quite their thing by saying to me: 'What about… — Helen Oyeyemi Copy Share Image
I think I started writing about identity, and I used to believe that identity is the story. But now I'm not so… — Helen Oyeyemi Copy Share Image
I sometimes get asked: 'How come the men in your stories don't have such strong characters?' And I'm like: 'I don't care.'… — Helen Oyeyemi Copy Share Image
Sometimes I feel weird about time. Sometimes I feel that it doesnt go in the order we perceive it. There are... repetitions… — Helen Oyeyemi Copy Share Image
I don't think my writing has much to do with my age. For me, my biography is more about what I was… — Helen Oyeyemi Copy Share Image
I don't feel there's a difference between the real world and the fairy-tale world. They contain psychological truths and, I guess, projections… — Helen Oyeyemi Copy Share Image
Years ago a friend and fellow writer, Nick Antosca, once made a remark about it being best not to threaten, but to… — Helen Oyeyemi Copy Share Image
I'm greedy about cities - I like to form my impressions of them on my own, and on foot as far as… — Helen Oyeyemi Copy Share Image
The way 'The Icarus Girl' came about was by me just basically bragging it with a literary agent and telling him I'd… — Helen Oyeyemi Copy Share Image
“Juju is not enough to protect you. Everything you have I will turn against you. I'll turn sugar bitter for you. I'll take your… — Helen Oyeyemi Copy Share Image
I do tend to feel more connected to dead writers, perhaps because they have finished their work. — Helen Oyeyemi Copy Share Image
“People don’t make too much money around here, but what comes with that is a different definition of what it means to be well-off.… — Helen Oyeyemi Copy Share Image
“He looked honored, extraordinarily honored, seeming to care for that which tore his flesh than he did for the flesh itself, embracing the blade… — Helen Oyeyemi Copy Share Image
“White-flowered shrubs thickened around her and so did sleep; it directed her limbs. Lie down now, sleep said sweetly. Lie down. These are the… — Helen Oyeyemi Copy Share Image
I don't despise 'Don Quixote,' but it is a book I don't... get. I'll have to come back it. Maybe there'll be a gateway… — Helen Oyeyemi Copy Share Image
“I think her favorite thing about our . . . collaboration was her actor and musician friends rubbing shoulders with my academic colleagues, she… — Helen Oyeyemi Copy Share Image
“After half an hour the Senora emerged, short of breath, with flushed cheeks…as uf she'd been seized and shaken like a faulty thermometer.” — Helen Oyeyemi Copy Share Image
“It was the usual struggle between one who loves by accepting burdens and one who loves by refusing to be” — Helen Oyeyemi Copy Share Image
“Pops says he loves me just the way I am, but not everyone in the world is like my father. Maman, for example. A… — Helen Oyeyemi Copy Share Image
“With boys there was a fundamental assumption that they had a right to be there—not always, but more often than not. With girls, Why… — Helen Oyeyemi Copy Share Image
