Writer Quotes by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

14 Writer quotes by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s 14 succinct thoughts provide a bright, accessible entry into her thoughtful, socially aware storytelling.

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“And I said, Ah correct, there is hope. She reads.”

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To choose to write is to reject silence.

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Successful fiction does not need to be validated by 'real life'; I cringe whenever a writer is asked how much of a…

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Sometimes novels are considered 'important' in the way medicine is - they taste terrible and are difficult to get down your throat,…

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I have been writing since I was old enough to spell. I have never considered not writing.

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Why did people ask "What is it about?" as if a novel had to be about only one thing.

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I can write with authority only about what I know well, which means that I end up using surface details of my…

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“It’s a novel, right? What’s it about?” Why did people ask “What is it about?” as if a novel had to be…

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Creative writing programmes are not very necessary. They just exist so that people like us can make a living.

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When the writing is going well, I'm obsessive. I don't shower, I don't take phone calls, I hardly respond to text messages,…

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The best novels are those that are important without being like medicine; they have something to say, are expansive and intelligent but…

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“Grace would ponder this story for a long time, with great sadness, and it would cause her to make a clear link…

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I would come, many years later, to understand why 'To Kill A Mockingbird' is considered 'an important novel', but when I first…

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'No Sweetness Here' is the kind of old-fashioned social realism I have always been drawn to in fiction, and it does what…

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“Because human beings lived then in a world in which physical strength was the most important attribute for survival; the physically stronger person was…

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To return to the books of my childhood is to yield to the strain of nostalgia that is curious about the self I once…

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I think white women need to wake up and say, 'Not all women are white,' three times in front of the mirror.

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We teach girls that they cannot be sexual beings in the way that boys are. If we have sons, we don't mind knowing about…

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“Alexa, and the other guests, and perhaps even Georgina, all understood the fleeing from war, from the kind of poverty that crushed human souls,…

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“I discovered race in America and it fascinated me.”

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“It was not as if he did not know what living in Lagos could do to a woman married to a young and wealthy…

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“They have the kinds of things we can eat.' An unease crept up on Ifemelu. She was comfortable here, and she wished she were…

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If I were not African, I wonder whether it would be clear to me that Africa is a place where the people do not…

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“But race is not biology; race is sociology. Race is not genotype; race is phenotype. Race matters because of racism. And racism is absurd…

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I like the U.S. and feel gratitude towards it.

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I’m very feminist in the way I look at the world, and that worldview must somehow be part of my work.

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Perhaps it is time to debate culture. The common story is that in 'real' African culture, before it was tainted by the West, gender…

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