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Taiye Selasi Quotes

The big ideas always come in flashes. I don’t really craft stories that much. I genuinely don’t know where these people come from, and I’ve often wondered if writing is just a socially acceptable form of madness Picture Quote #1

When writing screenplays, it’s a matter of remembering to leave off the page anything and everything that doesn’t appear on the screen Picture Quote #1

When I’m working, I’m so narrowly focused on sound, language, rhythm, flow, that I rarely feel the emotion of the text. It’s only after - long after - I’ve finished a piece that I can experience in any way its emotional charge Picture Quote #1

I live in Rome and five minutes from my flat is a church where you can walk in and see this beautiful Caravaggio. Just the way this man uses dark paint: dark to create dark to create dark, the layering of the darkness in his work. I just race home: I want to create! Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

I write essays to clear my mind. I write fiction to open my heart Picture Quote #1

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Sight is subjective. We learned that in class Picture Quote #1

As a writer, one is obliged to release her words, to let them live in the world on their own Picture Quote #1

How can I come from a nation? How can a human being come from a concept? Picture Quote #1

I was four when I announced my ambition to write, eight when I began publishing such claims Picture Quote #1

As a novelist, I ask of myself only that I tell the truth and that I tell it beautifully Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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The writer presents himself to the blank page not with an open passport but an open heart Picture Quote #1

When writing screenplays, it’s a matter of remembering to leave off the page anything and everything that doesn’t appear on the screen Picture Quote #1

I’ve written fiction for as long as I can remember; it’s always been my preferred form of play Picture Quote #1

The thing that comes most frequently to me on yoga retreats is excruciating pain in my hips Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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The big ideas always come in flashes. I don’t really craft stories that much. I genuinely don’t know where these people come from, and I’ve often wondered if writing is just a socially acceptable form of madness. (Taiye Selasi Quotes) When writing screenplays, it’s a matter of remembering to leave off the page anything and everything that doesn’t appear on the screen. (Taiye Selasi Quotes) When I’m working, I’m so narrowly focused on sound, language, rhythm, flow, that I rarely feel the emotion of the text. It’s only after - long after - I’ve finished a piece that I can experience in any way its emotional charge (Taiye Selasi Quotes) I live in Rome and five minutes from my flat is a church where you can walk in and see this beautiful Caravaggio. Just the way this man uses dark paint: dark to create dark to create dark, the layering of the darkness in his work. I just race home: I want to create! (Taiye Selasi Quotes) 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 Quotes) I write essays to clear my mind. I write fiction to open my heart (Taiye Selasi Quotes) Sight is subjective. We learned that in class (Taiye Selasi Quotes) As a writer, one is obliged to release her words, to let them live in the world on their own (Taiye Selasi Quotes) How can I come from a nation? How can a human being come from a concept? (Taiye Selasi Quotes) I was four when I announced my ambition to write, eight when I began publishing such claims (Taiye Selasi Quotes) As a novelist, I ask of myself only that I tell the truth and that I tell it beautifully (Taiye Selasi Quotes) 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 Quotes) The writer presents himself to the blank page not with an open passport but an open heart (Taiye Selasi Quotes) When writing screenplays, it’s a matter of remembering to leave off the page anything and everything that doesn’t appear on the screen (Taiye Selasi Quotes) I’ve written fiction for as long as I can remember; it’s always been my preferred form of play (Taiye Selasi Quotes) The thing that comes most frequently to me on yoga retreats is excruciating pain in my hips (Taiye Selasi Quotes) 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 (Taiye Selasi Quotes)