That's what makes writer's block so painful. You think the well has run dry, maybe somewhere in the heavens the tap has been turned off. That's beyond frightening.

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

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

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

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

Being a twin, and being my sister's twin, is such a defining part of my life that I wouldn't know how to be who I am, including a writer, without that being somehow at the centre.