Taiye Selasi Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)
Taiye Selasi quotes and sayings page 2 (writer). Here's quote # 11 through 20 out of the 21 we have.
“I'm not sure where I'm from! I was born in London. My father's from Ghana but lives in Saudi Arabia. My mother's Nigerian but lives in Ghana. I grew up in Boston.”
“That's what makes writer's block so painful. You think the well has run dry, maybe somewhere in the heavens the tap has been turned off. That's beyond frightening.”
“As a young woman, I had been seeking experience, knowledge, truth, the stuff writers need in their work, but when the artist actually kicked in, I came to understand that in this romantic relationship I was not free to be myself, or to find myself, in order to begin the true work I needed to do.”
“As a writer, one is obliged to release her words, to let them live in the world on their own.”
“The thing that comes most frequently to me on yoga retreats is excruciating pain in my hips.”
“So often, literature about African people is conflated with literature about African politics, as if the state were somehow of greater import or interest than the individual.”
“As a novelist, I ask of myself only that I tell the truth and that I tell it beautifully.”
“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.”
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