Taiye Selasi

I live in Rome and five minutes from my flat is a church where you can walk in and see this beautiful…

— Taiye Selasi

How can I come from a nation? How can a human being come from a concept?

— Taiye Selasi

I've written fiction for as long as I can remember; it's always been my preferred form of play.

— Taiye Selasi

The writer presents himself to the blank page not with an open passport but an open heart.

— Taiye Selasi

So often, literature about African people is conflated with literature about African politics, as if the state were somehow of greater import…

— Taiye Selasi

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

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

As a writer, one is obliged to release her words, to let them live in the world on their own.

— Taiye Selasi