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.

The thing that comes most frequently to me on yoga retreats is excruciating pain in my hips.

I write essays to clear my mind. I write fiction to open my heart.

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.

I wrote fiction during my entire childhood, from age 4 to 18, and started writing plays when I went to Yale and Oxford.

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

I wouldn't mind my book being called an African novel if it didn't invite lazy readings.