"There are things that you can’t translate into English, if you tried the sentence would be completely flat"

"The greatest thing about writing fiction is you don't know where the story is going. When I was writing Hlomu I becam…"

"February has always been a dull month for me, a dreadful period where I’m tired and irritable. My sister says it’s my…"

"at no point in my life did I sit down in a garden and inhale fresh air, watch flowers blooming under the blue sky and…"

"I don’t have a sacred writing space, but I do write better after midnight, when I’m surrounded by creative energy"

"The stories I write come from being a black woman in South Africa, the friendships and relationships I have had, fami…"

"It is them — because they are still buying my books and hyping them even five years later — who motivate me to contin…"

"So many things have come out of my writing journey and the risk I took to publish myself. The best one is the growing…"

"I don't think anything inspires creativity for me. I just wanted to write a story about black people."

"I'd rather someone talk to me about the characters in my books than my style of writing. I wanted it to appeal to som…"