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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Sight is subjective. We learned that in class.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The reduction of anguish to Hallmark-card hurt. The

How can I come from a nation? How can a human being come from a concept?

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

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