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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.

~Aminatta Forna

Topics: About All Day Checking Day Desk Facebook Lot Sort Stay Then Thing Ebay

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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.

~Aminatta Forna

Topics: Always Bigger Create Heart Kinds Literal Novelist Other People Story Tell Than Truths Wanted Who

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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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Topics: Anybody Childhood Country Ended Horrible Lived Trust Way Where

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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.

~Aminatta Forna

Topics: Age Ancient By The Time Down Eight Ever Far Happened History Make Many Memories Our Out Past Players Says Sense Start Time Trying Work You Yourself

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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

Topics: About Assumption Coffee Coming Complete Country Crop Everyone Her Hot Life Own Owns Plantation Project She Sierra Sierra Leone Talking Thinks Who Woman Writer Writing Wrote You

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I'm a doctor's daughter. I'm not squeamish at all.

~Aminatta Forna

Topics: Daughter Doctor

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Writer

Born: Unknown

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