Dudu Busani-Dube Quotes
born 1981 South Africa
Dudu Busani-Dube (born 7 September , 1981) is a South African journalist and author, best known for her fictional romance novels Hlomu series.
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Sometimes I don't even like or agree with her, but I can't change her or tame her just because I'm not happy with her decisions.
There are things that you can’t translate into English, if you tried the sentence would be completely flat
In order to create a culture of reading among children, we need to make books accessible to them and write stories they can relate to
It’s very difficult to adapt a book into a film, especially a fictional book where I have the freedom to do whatever I want to do with the characters.
It is our responsibility as storytellers to promote a reading culture to communities, many of which are marginalised.
If the assumption that I’m influential is true, then that’s the one issue I’m willing to speak about, openly and honestly.
I don't think anything inspires creativity for me. I just wanted to write a story about black people.
Reading opens one’s mind to different things and different worlds and expands horizons
The truth is I would have been fine i it had flopped, because at that time I wasn't as invested as I am now in the business.
I'd rather someone talk to me about the characters in my books than my style of writing. I wanted it to appeal to someone on a social grant, to someone in an executive office.
I’m the most known person who isn’t a celebrity
I don’t have a sacred writing space, but I do write better after midnight, when I’m surrounded by creative energy
It is them — because they are still buying my books and hyping them even five years later — who motivate me to continue writing
The greatest thing about writing fiction is you don't know where the story is going. When I was writing Hlomu I became her - you internalise the character and you let her lead you
I have rejected many ‘influencer’ deals, turned down many celebrity event invitations (not because there’s anything wrong with them, but because I know my limits and complications
So many things have come out of my writing journey and the risk I took to publish myself. The best one is the growing fearlessness about telling our stories as they are and using familiar language to tell them.