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Writing was something I always as a kid thought would be fabulous and glamorous to be a writer.
With any piece of writing, you're hoping that it will change something, and it seldom does.
I go through periods of not writing. Until there's something I can't find in the world that I need, so I write.
Writing about the future and the past is less a way of dramatizing change than of showing, by way of contrast, what abides.
It is easier to rewrite anything - even the worst writing in the world - than it is to write something from scratch.
To be called a Cy Young award winner is something I could have never imagined ever happening to me. I'm just always amazed at the blessings that came my way over the years.
Depending on what I'm working on, I come to the writing desk with entirely different mindsets. When I change form one to the other, it's as if another writer is on the scene.
When I'm writing books, something weird happens; and the result is the books contain a large amount of what you could call 'supernaturalism.' As a writer, I find I need that to explain the world I'm writing about.
There is no living African writer who has not had to, or will not have to, contend with Achebe's work. We are either resisting him - stylistically, politically, or culturally - or we are writing toward him.
