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I have been writing since I was old enough to spell. I have never considered not writing.

~Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

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I divide my time between Columbia, Maryland, and Lagos, Nigeria.

~Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Topics: Between Columbia Divide Maryland My Time Nigeria Time

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I am drawn, as a reader, to detail-drenched stories about human lives affected as much by the internal as by the external, the kind of fiction that Jane Smiley nicely describes as 'first and foremost about how individuals fit, or don't fit, into their social worlds.'

~Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Topics: About Affected Am Drawn External Fiction First Fit Foremost How Human Individuals Internal Jane Kind Lives Much Nicely Reader Smiley Social Stories Worlds I Am

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I write from real life. I am an unrepentant eavesdropper and a collector of stories. I record bits of overheard dialogue.

~Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Topics: Am Bits Collector Dialogue Life Real Real Life Record Stories Write I Am I Write

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I ask questions. I watch the world. And what I have discovered is that the parts of my fiction that people most tell me are 'unbelievable' are those that are most closely based on the real, those least diluted by my imagination.

~Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Topics: Ask Based Closely Discovered Fiction Imagination Least Me Most Parts People Questions Real Tell Those Unbelievable Watch World

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The best novels are those that are important without being like medicine; they have something to say, are expansive and intelligent but never forget to be entertaining and to have character and emotion at their centre.

~Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Topics: Being Best Centre Character Emotion Entertaining Expansive Forget Important Intelligent Like Medicine Never Never Forget Novels Say Something Those Without

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In primary school in south-eastern Nigeria, I was taught that Hosni Mubarak was the president of Egypt. I learned the same thing in secondary school. In university, Mubarak was still president of Egypt. I came to assume, subconsciously, that he - and others like Paul Biya in Cameroon and Muammar Gaddafi in Libya - would never leave.

~Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Topics: Assume Came Cameroon Egypt He Learned Leave Libya Like Never Nigeria Others Paul President Primary Primary School Same Same Thing School Secondary Still Subconsciously Taught Thing University Would I Came

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Nigerian politics has been, since the military dictatorships, largely non-ideological. Rather than a battle of ideas, it is about who can pump in the most money and buy the most access.

~Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Topics: About Access Battle Been Buy Dictatorships Ideas Largely Military Money Most Nigerian Politics Pump Rather Since Than Who

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There has always been a strange dissonance between the public and the private in Nigeria.

~Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Topics: Always Been Between Nigeria Private Public Strange

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Successful fiction does not need to be validated by 'real life'; I cringe whenever a writer is asked how much of a novel is 'real'.

~Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Topics: Asked Cringe Does Fiction How How Much Life Much Need Novel Real Real Life Successful Whenever Writer

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Biography

Nationality: Nigerian

Type: Writer

Born: September 15th, 1977

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