I was four when I announced my ambition to write, eight when I began publishing such claims. Taiye Selasi More Quotes by Taiye Selasi More Quotes From Taiye Selasi Being a twin, and being my sister's twin, is such a defining part of my life that I wouldn't know how to be who I am, including a writer, without that being somehow at the centre. Taiye Selasi defining twins who-i-am I read recently that the problem with stereotypes isn't that they are inaccurate, but that they're incomplete. And this captures perfectly what I think about contemporary African literature. The problem isn't that it's inaccurate, it's that it's incomplete. Taiye Selasi problem literature thinking The writer presents himself to the blank page not with an open passport but an open heart. Taiye Selasi blank pages heart 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. Taiye Selasi run think you painful The summer I finished my first novel 'Ghana Must Go,' I drove across west Africa: from Accra to Lome to Cotonou to the deliciously named Ouagadougou. Taiye Selasi africa first go summer
