Taiye Quotes: top 29 famous quotes about Taiye

Taiye Quotes & Sayings

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Your baby is crying, says the driver to Taiwo, the Ghanian way of saying your cell phone is ringing. — Taiye Selasi

The summer I finished my first novel 'Ghana Must Go,' I drove across west Africa: from Accra to Lome to Cotonou to the deliciously named Ouagadougou. — Taiye Selasi

Every Christmas, all around Ghana, there are tons of these parties and they are full of everything that exists in human life in Ghana and worldwide. — Taiye Selasi

A word forgot to remember what to forget and every so often let the truth slip - RENEE C. NEBLETT, Snapshots — Taiye Selasi

As a novelist, I ask of myself only that I tell the truth and that I tell it beautifully. — Taiye Selasi

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

If I'm at a book signing, and someone decides to take me to task, it can make for quite a sticky moment. — Saul David

Not sunflowers, not roses, but rocks in patterned sand grow here. And bloom. - ROBERT HAYDEN, Approximations — Taiye Selasi

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

I write essays to clear my mind. I write fiction to open my heart. — Taiye Selasi

The little corpse like a less lucky Moses all wrapped up in palm frond, in — Taiye Selasi

As a writer, one is obliged to release her words, to let them live in the world on their own. — Taiye Selasi

A totalitarian dictatorship cannot explain; it can only suppress. — Robert Payne

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

I've written fiction for as long as I can remember; it's always been my preferred form of play. — Taiye Selasi

BLARGLE SLORG NOTH HARGHLE FTHAGN! You know. The usual. — Jim Butcher

You should always look on human life as short and cheap. Yesterday sperm: tomorrow a mummy or ashes. — Marcus Aurelius

She sleeps like a cocoyam. A thing without senses. She sleeps like his mother, unplugged from the world. — Taiye Selasi

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

The problem with waiting is that it makes us weak — Leigh Bardugo

He was bound inside this body, trapped, an airborne being caged. In — Taiye Selasi

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

Sight is subjective. We learned that in class. — Taiye Selasi

The information revolution will lead us through a knowledge revolution to the wisdom revolution. — Talal Abu-Ghazaleh

I was four when I announced my ambition to write, eight when I began publishing such claims. — Taiye Selasi

I consider myself West African, among other cultural identities, and a writer, among other creative ones. — Taiye Selasi

The reduction of anguish to Hallmark-card hurt. The — Taiye Selasi

How can I come from a nation? How can a human being come from a concept? — Taiye Selasi

When someone brutally kills someone else, we call him "animalistic." But we consider ourselves "human" when we give to the poor. — Frans De Waal