As a novelist, I ask of myself only that I tell the truth and that I tell it beautifully.
As a writer, one is obliged to release her words, to let them live in the world on their own.
I consider myself West African, among other cultural identities, and a writer, among other creative ones.
I was four when I announced my ambition to write, eight when I began publishing such claims.
I wrote fiction during my entire childhood, from age 4 to 18, and started writing plays when I went to Yale and Oxford.
I've written fiction for as long as I can remember; it's always been my preferred form of play.
The thing that comes most frequently to me on yoga retreats is excruciating pain in my hips.
The writer presents himself to the blank page not with an open passport but an open heart.
When writing screenplays, it's a matter of remembering to leave off the page anything and everything that doesn't appear on the screen.