For Kenya: we have a chance to start again each time we meet one another. The ghosts do not need to define the future. — Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor Copy Share Image
The young readers I have interacted with carry old concerns repackaged in the skin of a new generation: puzzlement over continuous national moral failings, contradictions with the elders, nostalgia for a nonexistent Kenyan past. — Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor Copy Share Image
Every Kenyan writer has offered me something to hold onto, something to believe in. — Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor Copy Share Image
Even if we want to eradicate our ghosts, our dead, our murdered, even if you erase a name and the record of the existence… — Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor Copy Share Image
The truth, and nothing but the truth, is that dawn begins with a wrestling match with my soul and a systematic rejection of all… — Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor Copy Share Image
Matters of the subconscious affect reality in ways we don't quite realize. — Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor Copy Share Image
I come from a culture that has refined the art of the dirge to a sublime level. — Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor Copy Share Image
Recording stories is a way of honoring the faculty of memory, even if it's recorded, outsourcing memory to technology. — Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor Copy Share Image
Novel-writing is a settling, lovely space. I call it self-indulgent - I feel mildly guilty about it. — Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor Copy Share Image
Burma evoked the lost Kenyan soldiers who served in the war. You never hear about them. There were a significant number of casualties, men… — Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor Copy Share Image
I think every morning we wake up offers a new beginning, a new way of stepping into the day. I think every conversation could… — Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor Copy Share Image
I like talking to myself and making patterns out of the letters of the alphabet on blank surfaces. — Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor Copy Share Image
I can edit into infinity. It's such a joy. I'd probably edit until the last word. Until there's only one word left. — Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor Copy Share Image
