Every Kenyan writer has offered me something to hold onto, something to believe in.

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.

Kenya is an immense land with a capacity for healing.

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

I do need to find inner tranquillity and get into a "zone" before I switch on the computer to work on a story. Only after this do I enter the story world, where I meet the characters and, together, we work through the day and night.

I think every morning we wake up offers a new beginning, a new way of stepping into the day. I think every conversation could be a new chance.

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