"I think if you’re a white Zimbabwean, you have an extra responsibility to give back if you can. My hope as a publishe…"

"Books open up new worlds for us emotionally, geographically, culturally; by encouraging understanding, they help us t…"

"For me, literature is an incredibly important way of telling the truth."

"Editors are a bit like stage-hands: the play can’t go on without them, and yet their role is necessarily in the shado…"

"They ain’t been here long ’nough. They just barely human. Maybe not even. They suck up the world, don’t taste it."

"The intimacy of her mother’s hands and the warmth of the water lulled the Girl into a trance of sensuality she never …"

"Only frustrated people smoke too much and only lonely people are frustrated."

"I can never get a zipper to close."

"I didn't think I'd be true to a man again as long as I lived..."

"“Translation is not betrayal; it is a bridge that allows us to inhabit another’s world while keeping our own.”"