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“You are going to read a book that will inspire you to write a book.” —Jennifer Lunden, author of American Breakdown: Our Ailing Nation, My Body's Revolt, and the Nineteenth-Century Woman Who Brought Me Back to Life
“Listen deeper. Dream bigger.” —Terra Trevor, author of We Who Walk the Seven Ways
“I had to not only transform into different people and places, but to also find myself within both of those.” —Victor LaValle, author of Lone Women
“Sit with your characters and let them talk to you.” —Bisi Adjapon
“Stay curious, pay attention, and write things down.” —Chaitali Sen, author of A New Race of Men From Heaven
“I like taking risks.” —Joy Castro, author of One Brilliant Flame
The author of The White Mosque offers an ode to intertextuality.
“It takes a lot of intentional work to write ethical stories.” —Hafizah Augustus Geter, author of The Black Period: On Personhood, Race, and Origin
“This book really fought me, or I fought it, for the first couple of years.” —Safia Elhillo, author of Girls That Never Die
“I was struck by the freedom of third person, how I could roam and jump and skip around, and cozy up to characters and then back away.” —Ottessa Moshfegh, author of Lapvona
