Every Kenyan writer has offered me something to hold onto, something to believe in..

Even if we want to eradicate our ghosts, our dead, our murdered, even if you erase a name and the record of the existence of a person, somebody remem….

Matters of the subconscious affect reality in ways we don't quite realize..

I come from a culture that has refined the art of the dirge to a sublime level..

Dying away from home, away from the soil of your birth - and to do so unseen and unmourned - is a profound horror..

Kenya is an immense land with a capacity for healing..

I am indebted to anyone who has ever written anything. I am indebted to the unknown carver of pictograms on a gallery of stone panels, which I encoun….

I don't think Kenya is the only country that tries to induce amnesia - it seems to be a global phenomenon. But offenses do not die. They do not disap….

The truth, and nothing but the truth, is that dawn begins with a wrestling match with my soul and a systematic rejection of all the other useful poss….

Novel-writing is a settling, lovely space. I call it self-indulgent - I feel mildly guilty about it..

The young readers I have interacted with carry old concerns repackaged in the skin of a new generation: puzzlement over continuous national moral fai….

In my perfect imagination, with stern discipline I rise with the first bird, salute the dawn, have a healthy breakfast of fruits, wander over to my f….

I get turned on by the idea of an essence - finding the essence of the thing..

Even if you're in charge of the grand story there's still memory. The other stories do not go away..

Burma evoked the lost Kenyan soldiers who served in the war. You never hear about them. There were a significant number of casualties, men who never ….

I do need to find inner tranquillity and get into a "zone" before I switch on the computer to work on a story. Only after this do I enter the story w….

It may not seem that way, but I am an absolute optimist, an unrepentant optimist..

I think every morning we wake up offers a new beginning, a new way of stepping into the day. I think every conversation could be a new chance..

Kenya is a mercurial character. I feel the country has a presence that can turn on its people in a very violent way..

Recording stories is a way of honoring the faculty of memory, even if it's recorded, outsourcing memory to technology..

For Kenya: we have a chance to start again each time we meet one another. The ghosts do not need to define the future..