I wrote some of the worst poetry west from the Mississippi River, but I wrote. And I finally sometimes got it right.
I wrote some of the worst poetry west from the Mississippi River, but I wrote. And I finally sometimes got it right.
I’ve still not written as well as I want to. I want to write so that the reader in Des Moines, Iowa, in Kowloon, China, in Cape Town, South Africa, can say, ‘You know, that’s the truth. I wasn’t there, and I wasn’t a six-foot black girl, but that’s the truth.’
The first book I wrote was The Bride Price which was a romantic book, but my husband burnt the book when he saw it. I was the typical African woman, I’d done this privately, I wanted him to look at it, approve it and he said he wouldn’t read it.
Even those who write against fame wish for the fame of having written well, and those who read their works desire the fame of having read them.
I have no idea why I write. The old standards are: I like to express my feelings, stretch my imagination, earn money.
My inner critic who had begun piping up about how hopeless I was and how I didn’t know to write.
If you really want to write, then shut yourself in a room, close the door, and WRITE. If you don’t want to write, do something else. It’s as simple as that.
I would say that music is the easiest means in which to express, but since words are my talent, I must try to express clumsily in words what the pure music would have done better.
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