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The important thing about writing, for me anyway, is to speak from the heart. Integrity’s important. I’m not writing Disney…
On no account was he to read any of the manuscripts. His job was to open the envelopes, riffle through…
A therapist once asked me who my role models had been. I thought for a moment and then said ‘Books’.…
Later generations think that they can judge earlier ones because we who come later must be morally superior, having greater…
I discovered the Black American women writers, like Maya Angelou, Toni Morrison, Terry McMillan, Alice Walker and Ntozake Shange and…
I wrote my version of Rapunzel — Zel: Let Out Your Hair: a child whose afro hair grows up and…
T. E. Lawrence lost the only copy of his massive The Seven Pillars of Wisdom on a train and immediately…
I take notes, very neatly in pencil on a blank page at the end. When I’ve finished, I write a…
I can only have one novel on the go at any given time but with creative nonfiction, I often have…
If Deenie was cool, that meant it was okay to have scoliosis and not the shameful secret it had once…
I don’t come from a bookish family, so my addiction to reading was a surprise. My mother read cookbooks, my…
On its cover, a girl sits astride an alligator with sharp teeth. She’s being swept downstream to who knows where.…
