"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…"

"The fact that you have a gift that is different from a lot of people… that you can create things and the understandin…"