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Write Quotes by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- Americans think African writers will write about the exotic, about wildlife, poverty, maybe AIDS. They come to Africa and African books with certain expectations.
- I think my first general rule is that most of my experiences are not that interesting. It's usually other people's experiences. It's not that entirely…
- I had people read it early on and, you know, well-meaning people said to me, you should take out the blogs. I didn't get much…
- Richard exhaled. It was like somebody sprinkling pepper on his wound: Thousands of Biafrans were dead, and this man wanted to know if there was…
- You can't write a script in your mind and then force yourself to follow it. You have to let yourself be.
- I can write with authority only about what I know well, which means that I end up using surface details of my own life in…
- I write from real life. I am an unrepentant eavesdropper and a collector of stories. I record bits of overheard dialogue.
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