"The writer presents himself to the blank page……" — Taiye Selasi

The writer presents himself to the blank page not with an open… - Taiye Selasi

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

— Taiye Selasi

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23 Quotes by Taiye Selasi

Taiye Selasi has 23 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Sight is subjective. We learned that in class.
I wrote fiction during my entire childhood, from age 4 to 18, and started writing plays when I went to…
What distinguishes [Afropolitans] is a willingness to complicate Africa – namely, to engage with, critique, and celebrate the parts of…
As a young woman, I had been seeking experience, knowledge, truth, the stuff writers need in their work, but when…
I write essays to clear my mind. I write fiction to open my heart.
The thing that comes most frequently to me on yoga retreats is excruciating pain in my hips.
I've written fiction for as long as I can remember; it's always been my preferred form of play.
When writing screenplays, it's a matter of remembering to leave off the page anything and everything that doesn't appear on…
I read recently that the problem with stereotypes isn't that they are inaccurate, but that they're incomplete. And this captures…
Being a twin, and being my sister's twin, is such a defining part of my life that I wouldn't know…
I'm not sure where I'm from! I was born in London. My father's from Ghana but lives in Saudi Arabia.…
So often, literature about African people is conflated with literature about African politics, as if the state were somehow of…

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More Blank Quotes

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Perfect isn't normal, nor is it interesting. I have no features without makeup. I am pale. I have blond lashes.… — Amy Adams
I have this fantasy. I'm walking past a bookshop and I click my fingers and all my books go blank.… — John Banville
I just filled out my income tax forms. Who says you can't get killed by a blank? — Milton Berle
A blank wall of social and professional antagonism faces the woman physician that forms a situation of singular and painful… — Elizabeth Blackwell
It's so fine and yet so terrible to stand in front of a blank canvas. — Paul Cezanne
Blank House was exactly a nice empty sheet where nothing was accountable because you were so naughty that you were… — Diane Cilento
I really just love to open a blank document and spew, whereas with a screenplay I have to be more… — Diablo Cody
Definition, rationality, and structure are ways of seeing, but they become prisons when they blank out other ways of seeing. — A. R. Ammons
Tomorrow is the first blank page of a 365-page book. Write a good one. — Brad Paisley
Each new day is a blank page in the diary of your life. The secret of success is in turning… — Laozi
The past but lives in written words: a thousand ages were blank if books had not evoked their ghosts, and… — Francois Fenelon
Buzz so big I could probably sell a blank disc. — Drake

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