As a writer, one is obliged to release her words, to let them live in the world on their own.

When writing screenplays, it's a matter of remembering to leave off the page anything and everything that doesn't appear on the screen.

The writer presents himself to the blank page not with an open passport but an open heart.

I consider myself West African, among other cultural identities, and a writer, among other creative ones.

I'm not sure where I'm from! I was born in London. My father's from Ghana but lives in Saudi Arabia. My mother's Nigerian but lives in Ghana. I grew up in Boston.

When I'm working, I'm so narrowly focused on sound, language, rhythm, flow, that I rarely feel the emotion of the text. It's only after - long after - I've finished a piece that I can experience in any way its emotional charge.

Sight is subjective. We learned that in class.