I do tend to feel more connected to dead writers, perhaps because they have finished their work.
Helen OyeyemiI collected pictures and I drew pictures and I looked at the pictures by myself. And because no one else ever saw them, the pictures were perfect and true. They were alive.
Helen OyeyemiThat's the ideal meeting...once upon a time, only once, unexpectedly, then never again.
Helen OyeyemiI wish there was someone I could have written to after that, someone I could have written to explain how awful it was to have someone touch you, then look at you properly and change his mind.
Helen Oyeyemi