Writing Quotes by Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor

Every Kenyan writer has offered me something to hold onto, something to believe in.

— Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor

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

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

Matters of the subconscious affect reality in ways we don't quite realize.

— Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor

I come from a culture that has refined the art of the dirge to a sublime level.

— Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor

Kenya is an immense land with a capacity for healing.

— Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor

Recording stories is a way of honoring the faculty of memory, even if it's recorded, outsourcing memory to technology.

— Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor

Novel-writing is a settling, lovely space. I call it self-indulgent - I feel mildly guilty about it.

— Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor

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

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

I like talking to myself and making patterns out of the letters of the alphabet on blank surfaces.

— Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor

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