Quotes by Aminatta Forna - Page 1

My family's a ruling family.
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Family
Ruling
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If you want to know a country, read its writers.
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Country
Knows
Want
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I'm a doctor's daughter. I'm not squeamish at all.
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Daughter
Doctor
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A hospital is a good place to set various dilemmas.
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Good Place
Good Place Good Place
Dilemmas
Hospital
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I was brought up in a household where you stood up to be counted.
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Household
Stood Up
Counted
Stood
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All liars ... lie to protect themselves, to shield their egos from the raw pain of truth.
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Liars
Lying
Pain
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My childhood ended in this horrible way. I lived in a country where I didn't trust anybody.
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Horrible
Ended
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Most writers I know go for word counts, and I used to be a journalist, so I guess that's ingrained.
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Counts
Ingrained
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Jung Chang was the first person to tell a grand historical, political story through a personal narrative.
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Historical
Narrative
Political
Stories
Grand
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I temporarily became a surgeon for 'Memory of Love'. I spent two weeks in an operating theatre, watching amputations, and I loved it.
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Two Weeks
Memory
Operating
Surgeon
Temporarily
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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.
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War
People
Survival
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I'm at my desk for about 9:30 A.M., and I stay there all day. Then there's a lot of checking Facebook and eBay and that sort of thing.
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Ebay
All Day
Checking
Desk
Facebook
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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 that.
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War
Country
Extraordinary
Writing
Ultimately
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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 truths than literal truths.
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Literal
Truths
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I don't have very many little fetishes, but the one I do have is that I like a particular mug to drink out of. It's just a small china cup, and I get very upset if my husband moves it.
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China
Husband
Mug
Particular
Upset
Cup
Small
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I get a very vague idea and - perhaps because I once was a journalist, or perhaps because that's what made me want to be a journalist - I go off and explore it for a bit, rather than mapping out a plot and then filling in the research.
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Filling
Mapping
Plot
Explore
Vague Idea
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Increasingly, there are those of us who write from outside the center, and those are the writers that I'm most interested in because they bring me into worlds that I did not previously know. And that, as a writer, is what I try to create.
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Writer
Me Know Try
Center
Increasingly
Worlds
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The Watch is a powerful tale, courageous both in concept and creation: an ancient tale made modern, passed through different narrators in extraordinary shape-shifting prose that makes this not just an important novel, but a remarkable read.
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Important
Narrators
Powerful
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No one ever sits you down at age eight and says, 'Aminatta, this is what's happened so far.' You have to work it out for yourself, and by the time you do, it's ancient history to many of the players. We're trying to make sense of the past, so we start to excavate our memories.
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Ancient
Eight
Memories
Time Work History
By The Time
Work Time History
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Everyone thinks I have a coffee plantation in Sierra Leone, but I have a cashew crop project. I wrote about a woman who owns a coffee plantation! When you are talking about a woman writer coming from a hot country, there's a complete assumption that she is writing about her own life.
Aminatta Forna / Writer
Assumption
Coffee
Sierra
Sierra Leone
Crop
Owns
Plantation
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