Dying away from home, away from the soil of your birth - and to do so unseen and unmourned - is a profound horror.

I can edit into infinity. It's such a joy. I'd probably edit until the last word. Until there's only one word left.

Even if you're in charge of the grand story there's still memory. The other stories do not go away.

Recording stories is a way of honoring the faculty of memory, even if it's recorded, outsourcing memory to technology.

Novel-writing is a settling, lovely space. I call it self-indulgent - I feel mildly guilty about it.

Even though we've written epic poems and made incredible films about love, I still don't think anyone can understand what it is, or why it means everything.

Kenya is an immense land with a capacity for healing.