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

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

Sight is subjective. We learned that in class.

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

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.

So often, literature about African people is conflated with literature about African politics, as if the state were somehow of greater import or interest than the individual.

Being a twin, and being my sister's twin, is such a defining part of my life that I wouldn't know how to be who I am, including a writer, without that being somehow at the centre.