Writer Quotes by Tomi Adeyemi

We've been told the same story for so long. We've seen literally 1,000 'Lord of the Rings' movies.

— Tomi Adeyemi

I'm a huge 'Harry Potter' fan, but I still think there is a lot of anime that is crazier than 'Harry Potter,' and that…

— Tomi Adeyemi

Children of color need a mirror to see themselves in. And then people who don't have that experience, they need a window. They need…

— Tomi Adeyemi

If I went to any other college, I probably would have been pre-med. But I felt like I had freedom to do what I…

— Tomi Adeyemi

I want to give something to the world that I feel I missed out on as a child, and I want to help people…

— Tomi Adeyemi

The things I want to do mostly involve writing.

— Tomi Adeyemi

At every writers' conference, you have the opportunity to hear from best-selling authors, top literary agents, and excellent editors who will demystify the publishing…

— Tomi Adeyemi

“You have your duty and your heart. To chose one means the other must suffer.”

— Tomi Adeyemi

The YA author community is generally pretty friendly, and they care.

— Tomi Adeyemi

As writers, our craft makes us sit alone at a desk and hammer away at our novel. Doing that day in and day out…

— Tomi Adeyemi

I spent 12 years of my life writing stories without black people. That's insane to me. It's insane that I could have believed in…

— Tomi Adeyemi

In terms of people who want to be writers, I wish more people knew how much work it was.

— Tomi Adeyemi

Everyone has a story that they read when they were younger that influenced them.

— Tomi Adeyemi

You can make something out of every unfinished story and every rejection if you work at it.

— Tomi Adeyemi

My freshman year of college, 'The Hunger Games' movie adaptation came out, and I was really excited about it. This was maybe 2011. I…

— Tomi Adeyemi