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It’s a beautiful thing to find your book at a community book store that has raised you

The duty of all governments is to make the environment conducive for writers, incentivize them to produce their best works

I want to write. That pretty much sums up my aspirations for my career

Giving people opportunities to write and exposing people to technical experts in the space can be career altering

Batswana must develop those habits of writing and sustain them

There is so much chaos and uncertainty in living, in life and writing for me feels like it’s possible to tame the wild of life into patterns and words, into beauty

It’s the prevalence of premonitions that got me started and I thought it would be cool if I could personify death

I think that perhaps the ways that some books are written do not cater for us and therefore feel alienating

Africans are naturally in tune with the ancestral realm. We “feel” things. “know” things

Writing for me is when I feel the most connected to myself and everything around me. I’d do it even if no-one ever read anything I wrote

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Botho Lejowa (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.