One book at a time... though I'm usually doing the research for others while I'm writing, but that sort of research is fairly desultory and I like to stick to the book being written - and writing a book concentrates the mind so the research is more p...
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.
I think every writer has a book that haunts them, and on some level, every book you write is a reaction to it. 'Lolita' is that book for me. Nabokov's love of wordplay, descriptive detail, artfully complex plots, and his themes of obsession and lost ...
I decided he'd changed so much that a whole new book was required and that book actually I can say so was the first to say that the marriage was in trouble and the Prince didn't like at all and my book was being serialized in the Sunday Times over fi...
What I think is interesting is that the more you do, you have to invent a book of rules of what you can do and what you can't do. And the very real danger is that if your book of rules becomes a book of cliches.
Of all the ways of acquiring books, writing them oneself is regarded as the most praiseworthy method. Writers are really people who write books not because they are poor, but because they are dissatisfied with the books which they could buy but do no...
Humor is so important to the American scene throughout history.
I was a big history buff as a teenager.
I'm a big stupid history nerd.
Music history has flowed under the bridges for many years.
It would be unwise for the modern Republican Party to come across as hostile to immigration. That has been the losing position in American history for 200 years.
In France, history is paralyzing.
Countries and places have a history, a story, and a culture.
In history, the millions win; that is democracy.
In counterfactual history, nothing is certain.
'Paquita' has a patchy history, beginning in 1846, and a patchy plot.
I'm obsessed by the idea of making my mark on history. And Arsenal is my paradise.
History is Philosophy teaching by example.
History can never be covered up.
Isn't history ultimately the result of our fear of boredom?
History's a bitch when you're in the middle of it.
