All Aminatta Forna Quotes
- If you want to know a country, read its writers. Country
- All liars ... lie to protect themselves, to shield their egos from the raw pain of truth. All
- War had the effect of encouraging people to try to stay alive. Poverty, too. Survival was simply too hard-won to be given up lightly. Alive
- What ultimately happened is that my country had a war. I think it would be extraordinary, as a writer, not to want to write about… Country
- I was brought up in a household where you stood up to be counted. Brought
- Jung Chang was the first person to tell a grand historical, political story through a personal narrative. Chang
- I was always at heart a novelist and wanted to tell a bigger story, so I wanted to create people who told other kinds of… Bigger
- A hospital is a good place to set various dilemmas. Dilemmas