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Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor quotes: 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.

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.

Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor quotes: Kenya is an immense land with a capacity for healing.

Kenya is an immense land with a capacity for healing.

Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor quotes: Kenya is a mercurial character. I feel the country has a presence that can turn on its people in a very violent way.

Kenya is a mercurial character. I feel the country has a presence that can turn on its people in a very violent way.

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

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

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

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

Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor quotes: I like talking to myself and making patterns out of the letters of the alphabet on blank surfaces.

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

Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor quotes: I get turned on by the idea of an essence - finding the essence of the thing.

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

Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor quotes: It may not seem that way, but I am an absolute optimist, an unrepentant optimist.

It may not seem that way, but I am an absolute optimist, an unrepentant optimist.

Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor quotes: I come from a culture that has refined the art of the dirge to a sublime level.

I come from a culture that has refined the art of the dirge to a sublime level.

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

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

Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor quotes: Matters of the subconscious affect reality in ways we don't quite realize.

Matters of the subconscious affect reality in ways we don't quite realize.

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

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

Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor quotes: Novel-writing is a settling, lovely space. I call it self-indulgent - I feel mildly guilty about it.

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

Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor quotes: 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.

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.

Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor quotes: Every Kenyan writer has offered me something to hold onto, something to believe in.

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