In ways I don't entirely have the words for, an experience, thought or a lesson isn't real for me until I've written… — Alexandra Fuller Copy Share Image
I did try to write fiction. I wrote 10 novels. And they were all just awful. — Alexandra Fuller Copy Share Image
That's the advantage of being a writer: No matter what happens, as long as you survive it, it goes into the work. — Alexandra Fuller Copy Share Image
Being a writer but also having been raised the way I was, I tend to turn to books for answers. — Alexandra Fuller Copy Share Image
Oh, I don't keep a journal. How you remember an incident is dictated by your emotional state at the time. How you… — Alexandra Fuller Copy Share Image
There's a point at which writing a book, or a long article, begins to feel like mental labor, and it's too painful… — Alexandra Fuller Copy Share Image
The only process that comes close to the process of writing a whole book, in my experience, is childbirth. There is this… — Alexandra Fuller Copy Share Image
FBI Girl is a gorgeous, sumptuous book. Conlon-McIvor takes a subject (herself and her family) that might have sunk in other hands,… — Alexandra Fuller Copy Share Image
For me, writing is really an agony. I feel as if I have a huge, luminous idea that has the potential to… — Alexandra Fuller Copy Share Image
I am becoming increasingly difficult to please as a reader, but I adore being surprised by a really wonderful book, written by… — Alexandra Fuller Copy Share Image
I'm a working writer; this is my job. So it matters to me that it's good. I sweat over every word. I… — Alexandra Fuller Copy Share Image
There is a myth that writers get to choose their stories. You don't get to choose your story any more than you… — Alexandra Fuller Copy Share Image
“Toasted tobacco, no additives,' I said. 'Yum. Tastes like childhood.” — Alexandra Fuller Copy Share Image
I don't think we have all the words in a single vocabulary to explain what we are or why we are. I don't think… — Alexandra Fuller Copy Share Image
In the West, it was believed that attitude and ambition saved you. In Africa, we had learned that no one was immune to capricious… — Alexandra Fuller Copy Share Image
What is important is the story. Because when we are all dust and teeth and kicked-up bits of skin - when we're dancing with… — Alexandra Fuller Copy Share Image
One of the things about being raised British in Africa is that you get this double whammy of toughness. The continent in place itself… — Alexandra Fuller Copy Share Image
“How much strength must one people have? And for how long must they have it?” — Alexandra Fuller Copy Share Image
I think that being raised the way I was, where everything was so uncompromising, where, you know, we're prepared to fight to the death… — Alexandra Fuller Copy Share Image
This is not a full circle. It's life carrying on. It's the next breath we all take. It's the choice we make to get… — Alexandra Fuller Copy Share Image
“The schools wear the blank faces of war buildings, their windows blown blind by rocks or guns or mortars. Their plaster is an acne… — Alexandra Fuller Copy Share Image
Until I read Anne Frank's diary, I had found books a literal escape from what could be the harsh reality around me. After I… — Alexandra Fuller Copy Share Image
