Taiye Selasi

As a novelist, I ask of myself only that I tell the truth and that I tell it beautifully.

I've written fiction for as long as I can remember; it's always been my preferred form of play.

Being a twin, and being my sister's twin, is such a defining part of my life that I wouldn't know how to be who I am, including a writer, without that being somehow at the centre.

I have been given permission to announce that I and others from 'All My Children' have been approached by the company Prospect Park, who bought 'AMC,' with the intention to move it online.

It is hardly surprising that women concentrate on the way they look instead of what is in their minds since not much has been put in their minds to begin with.

My first career ambitions involved turning into a boy; I intended to be either a railway guard or a knight errant.