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Sometimes I feel very alone. I am a bit of a nomad. Many people in sort of emerging countries, emerging economies, find themselves displaced. So there is that sense, and so I'm part of a whole, I think, group of displaced people.

~Chris Abani

Topics: Alone Am Bit Countries Displaced Economies Emerging Feel Find Group Many Nomad Part People Sense Sometimes Sort Themselves Think Very Whole I Think I Am I Feel

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I have to have three or four books going simultaneously. If I'm not impressed in the first 20 pages, I don't bother reading the rest, especially with novels. I'm not a book-club style reader. I'm not looking for life lessons or wanting people to think I'm smart because I'm reading a certain book.

~Chris Abani

Topics: Because Book Books Bother Certain First Four Going Impressed Lessons Life Life Lessons Looking Novels Pages People Reader Reading Rest Simultaneously Smart Style Think Three Wanting

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I truly believe that writing is a continuum - so the different genres and forms are simply stops along the same continuum. Different ideas that need to be expressed sometimes require different forms for the ideas to float better. I don't write essays as often as I should.

~Chris Abani

Topics: Along Believe Better Continuum Different Different Genres Different Ideas Essays Expressed Float Forms Genres Ideas Need Often Require Same Should Simply Sometimes Stops Truly Write Writing

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I love essays, but they're not always the best way to communicate to a larger audience.

~Chris Abani

Topics: Always Audience Best Best Way Communicate Essays Larger Love Way I Love

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Fiction and poetry are my first loves, but the really beautiful lyrical essay can do so much that other forms cannot.

~Chris Abani

Topics: Beautiful Cannot Essay Fiction First Forms Loves Lyrical Much Other Poetry Really

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It takes me forever to actually finish something like a ten-page essay. But, when I do, I usually love what they are. It's a complicated relationship.

~Chris Abani

Topics: Actually Complicated Essay Finish Forever Like Love Me Relationship Something Takes

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Men do communicate, often very directly, but women sometimes cannot accept how simple what we have to say is.

~Chris Abani

Topics: Accept Cannot Communicate Directly How Men Often Say Simple Sometimes Very Women

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That women are mysterious and unknowable is something every young man grows up believing. Men, on the other hand, never think of themselves as mysterious or confusing, and we are often at a loss as to why women want to figure us out.

~Chris Abani

Topics: Believing Confusing Every Figure Grows Hand Loss Man Men Mysterious Never Often Other Out Something Themselves Think Unknowable Up Us Want Why Women Women Are Young Young Man

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Like most writers, I find the Web is a wonderful distraction. Who doesn't need that last minute research before writing?

~Chris Abani

Topics: Before Distraction Find Last Like Minute Most Need Research Web Who Wonderful Writers Writing

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My books are often shelved around those of Chinua Achebe and Margaret Atwood, or Chimamanda Adichie and Monica Ali. All of this depends, of course, on the bookstore and how conversant the shelf stocker is with the alphabet.

~Chris Abani

Topics: Ali Alphabet Around Books Bookstore Course Depends How Margaret Monica Often Shelf Those

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Biography

Nationality: Nigerian

Type: Author

Born: December 27th, 1966

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