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Taiye Selasi Quotes

The big ideas always come in flashes. I don't really craft stories that much. I genuinely don't know where these people come from, and I've often wondered if writing is just a socially acceptable form of madness.

Taiye Selasi

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: ghanaian

Topics

People Ideas Writing Madness Know

Both Atletico and Real Madrid called my dad, but at that time, I wasn't doing too well at school, and they wouldn't let me go until my grades improved. They both called back, and since Atleti was closer to home, I joined their football academy. It was the start of a period where I stopped enjoying football - I lost the love for it.

Alvaro Morata

Love Home Time Football School Me

I made a very conscious effort to finish 'The Cypress House' before 'So Cold the River' launched, because I thought that would help build a buffer between my writing and any impact that came from either the success or the failure of that first book.

Michael Koryta

Success Failure Effort River Writing

I learned to read music before I learned to read script.

Mildred Dresselhaus

Music Read Before Learned Script

In Count Julian I simply proposed to create a text which would allow for diverse levels of reading.

Juan Goytisolo

Reading Create Count Would Text

I've always had an interest in business, and my interest in business has really expanded over the years.

Derek Jeter

Business Always Over Years Interest

I got a chance to work with so many stalwarts from British cinema. Judi Dench, of course, who is a legend. Then there was my director Stephen Frears. He is the man who made some of British cinema's salient trendsetters.

Ali Fazal

Work Man Chance Legend Cinema Made

I want to interview the most important people in the world and have everyone in America the next day going, 'Did you see that?'

Piers Morgan

Day People World America You Want

I think anytime you work on something, even if you feel really good about it, you're never really sure. Once it's in the public space, it's out of my hands.

Phoebe Robinson

Work Good Space Think Hands You

What I wanted to do was the comedy, and I found that. I found my bliss, I think.

Riaad Moosa

Think Comedy Bliss Found I Think

When I was 20 I was immensely proud of the rows of grey-spined Penguin Modern Classics in my bookcase.

Linda Grant

Proud Penguin Modern Classics Rows

My biggest failure was trying to start and run a music label. The music industry was dying, and I wasn't ready to help other people the way that they needed to be helped. I was trying to, and I was stifling myself with it.

Killer Mike

Failure Music Myself People Start

Intimacy is not a happy medium. It is a way of being in which the tension between distance and closeness is dissolved and a new horizon appears. Intimacy is beyond fear.

Henri Nouwen

Fear Happy Horizon Distance New Way