For Kenya: we have a chance to start again each time we meet one another. The ghosts do not need to define the future.

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 get turned on by the idea of an essence - finding the essence of the thing.

I like talking to myself and making patterns out of the letters of the alphabet on blank surfaces.

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

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