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

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

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

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.

So often, literature about African people is conflated with literature about African politics, as if the state were somehow of greater import or interest than the individual.

The summer I finished my first novel Ghana Must Go, I drove across west Africa: from Accra to Lomé to Cotonou to the deliciously named Ouagadougou.

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.

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

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

I'm not sure where I'm from! I was born in London. My father's from Ghana but lives in Saudi Arabia. My mother's Nigerian but lives in Ghana. I grew up in Boston.

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

[We let] the universality of fantasy, of once upon a time, allow escapist fiction to be more than just that - to also bring us home.

He was a chicken in the outside world that turned into a lion on entering the house.

Just love others for what they are and not what you want them to be.

Supercomputers will achieve one human brain capacity by 2010, and personal computers will do so by about 2020.

Death is only a small interruption.

Passive pleasure is no pleasure at all.

Bernie Mac just says what you think but are afraid to say.

First you fuel the desire, then the desire will fuel you.

Each man has his own vocation; his talent is his call. There is one direction in which all space is open to him.

Someone observed darkly that it is always two A.M. when one is in the 'dark night of the soul.