"You don't need attention to write. All you need is passion for your work and an overwhelming desire to tell a story y…"

"I never wanted to be a writer; I just had stories I needed to tell."

"She drinks her Eva water. Their parents were taken down by cancer, heart attacks and strokes. Respectable diseases."

"Most of the children were shoeless and you were confronted with the dilemma that, no matter how much money you had an…"

"I enjoy writing plays most. I haven't written a radio play in a while and I don't write short stories anymore because…"

"I get stage fright with short stories . For me it feels like stand up comedy: kill or die. I’m more confident when I …"

"Cooking was a skill, I thought; an art form. In our country, we appreciated the end result, but not the craft, perhap…"

"It occurred to me that there was nothing more precious than satisfaction. That it was possible to end up committing a…"

"History is very important to my work in that regard and thank you for noticing. I’m no expert on Fanon, but I used th…"

"I don't have much of an imagination, but I have a mind bank of details, which I play with. It's how I daydream, so wr…"