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Julie Nxadi is a South African writer and artist.
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My only real job now is to remember to listen in the face of English
I try to make sure that I stay as true as possible to those audio-visual interruptions from whence the stories come .
I don’t believe in genre. A good story is tragic, funny, romantic, uncomfortable, good, bad, everything, and nothing at all
Telling a story that nobody asked to hear is a pretty scary process
I was taught that the rain can cry with you and cleanse you
My relationship with writing is in its infancy compared to my relationship with storytelling
I don’t need white characters in my stories for my characters to read as nuanced and deserving of anybody’s attention, Toni Morrison taught me that
I hear and see things before I write them down
There is this strange balance one has to strike whereby you are not precious about your work, but at the same time you need to be able to stand up for it
It’s amazing how a word appearing somewhere you may not have expected it to has the ability to slow one’s reading down or speed it up
who is better equipped than someone who is eloquent in the language of imagination? A child.
It’s a medium that I have been fiddling with for a while, but it has never been the medium itself that is important to me, it is the story that is being told