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A hospital is a good place to set various dilemmas.

~Aminatta Forna

Topics: Dilemmas Good Good Place Hospital Place Set Various

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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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Topics: Became Love Loved Memory Operating Spent Surgeon Temporarily Theatre Two Two Weeks Watching Weeks

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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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Topics: Counts Go Guess Ingrained Journalist Know Most Used Word Writers

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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.

~Aminatta Forna

Topics: China Cup Drink Get Husband Just Like Little Many Moves Mug Out Particular Small Upset Very

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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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Topics: Because Bring Center Create Did Increasingly Interested Know Me Most Outside Those Try Us Who Worlds Write Writer Writers

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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.

~Aminatta Forna

Topics: Because Bit Explore Filling Get Go Idea Journalist Made Me Off Once Out Perhaps Plot Rather Research Than Then Vague Very Want

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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.

~Aminatta Forna

Topics: About Country Extraordinary Had Happened Think Ultimately Want War Would Write Writer I Think

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I was brought up in a household where you stood up to be counted.

~Aminatta Forna

Topics: Brought Counted Household Stood Up Where You

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My family's a ruling family.

~Aminatta Forna

Topics: Family Ruling

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Jung Chang was the first person to tell a grand historical, political story through a personal narrative.

~Aminatta Forna

Topics: First Grand Historical Narrative Person Personal Political Story Tell Through

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Writer

Born: Unknown

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