Sight is subjective. We learned that in class.

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.

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

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.

Asked what would be his idea of Heaven, one statesman in 1897 said it would be to "receive a flow of telegrams alternating news of a British victory by sea and a British victory by land.

I hate today, today is everyday.- I think something is going on most cases I'm wrong others I'm right...

But the moment I saw you, I knew there was something more. There was something behind those big, beautiful brown eyes that I had to get to know, and, damn girl you’ve kept me in a trance ever since.

I had a lot of romantic notions about what it would mean to cross Asia by foot.

There is a sense that animated movies are suddenly a genre. I just don't believe they are; it's a technique to tell a story.

I do not like to have people throw themselves away; but everybody should marry as soon as they can do it to advantage.

Some 43 percent of voters in union households voted for President Bush in 2004, according to exit poll data.

In God We Trust. I don't believe it would sound any better if it were true.

Perhaps God waits for us to be empty, so he may fill us with himself.

If you're on the right side of the issue, just keep driving until you hear glass breaking. Don't quit.