Phrase by 'Helen Oyeyemi'

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Authors I've longed to write like - but realize I actually can't even begin to - include Poe, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Kafka, Daniil Kharms, Witold Gombrowicz, Emily Dickinson, Robert Walser, Barbara Comyns, Ntozake Shange, Camille Laurens, Zbigniew Herbert, and Jose Saramago.

Author: Helen Oyeyemi - British Novelist
  Like , Write , Realize , Begin


Home is where your teapots are.

Author: Helen Oyeyemi - British Novelist
  Your , Where , Home


I'm greedy about cities - I like to form my impressions of them on my own, and on foot as far as possible, looking and listening, having conversations with bridges and streets and riverbanks, conversations I tend not to be aware of until a little later, when I find myself returning to those places to say hello again, even if only in memory.

Author: Helen Oyeyemi - British Novelist
  Myself , Looking , Memory , My Own


I always wanted to be a writer! But I wanted to do other things, too - be a psychologist, a librarian, et cetera. Now I've decided that reading fiction that features characters who are in those professions will do.

Author: Helen Oyeyemi - British Novelist
  Always , Will , Reading , Things


Years ago a friend and fellow writer, Nick Antosca, once made a remark about it being best not to threaten, but to simply act. An effective way of going about things, I think.

Author: Helen Oyeyemi - British Novelist
  Think , Best , Way , Friend


I don't despise 'Don Quixote,' but it is a book I don't... get. I'll have to come back it. Maybe there'll be a gateway story that opens it up for me; that happened for me with 'Paradise Lost' and the 'His Dark Materials' trilogy.

Author: Helen Oyeyemi - British Novelist
  Me , Back , Book , Dark


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