Marlon James

“There was never a single murder in my neighbourhood; there was barely a robbery. It was so suburban, it was almost disappointing.”

“Pretty much everything I've written is a mix of excitement and fear.”

“I think that’s what Toni Morrison and Alice Walker understand, the secret language of women. That it’s not a secret at all; men just don’t know how to listen.”

“As a writer of colour, you have to be victim or perpetrator.”

“hate people like that, people you have to protect while they keep hurting you.”

“I have a theory that while a man might not always get the wife he wants or needs, he always gets the wife he deserves.”