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Aminatta Forna Quotes

A hospital is a good place to set various dilemmas Picture Quote #1

I was brought up in a household where you stood up to be counted Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

If you want to know a country, read its writers Picture Quote #1

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All liars... lie to protect themselves, to shield their egos from the raw pain of truth Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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A hospital is a good place to set various dilemmas (Aminatta Forna Quotes) I was brought up in a household where you stood up to be counted (Aminatta Forna Quotes) 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 (Aminatta Forna Quotes) 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 Quotes) 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 Quotes) If you want to know a country, read its writers (Aminatta Forna Quotes) All liars... lie to protect themselves, to shield their egos from the raw pain of truth (Aminatta Forna Quotes) 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 Quotes)