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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
We became friends, I suppose, because we lived close to each other and it suited us and because when you are young friendships go unquestioned.
— Aminatta Forna
Courage is not what it took to survive. Quite the opposite! You had to be a coward to survive.
— Aminatta Forna
Most writers I know go for word counts, and I used to be a journalist, so I guess that's ingrained.
— Aminatta Forna
She wasn't comfortable with the term boyfriend even when she did have one, and she hated everybody knowing her private business.
— Ann Brashares
There's nothing new about this story of ours, such things happen. Love misses its mark, arrives too early or too late. Nobody dies, except in novels.
— Aminatta Forna
There's something uncomfortable about looking at pictures of your parents at a time when they made each other happy.
— Aminatta Forna
A hospital is a good place to set various dilemmas.
— Aminatta Forna
Adrian hears the echo of his own thoughts of earlier in the day, only differently stated. The silent lie.
— Aminatta Forna
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
People said it was a song about drugs, but John Lennon said the name came from a picture his son painted of a girl at school.
— Aminatta Forna
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
I was brought up in a household where you stood up to be counted.
— Aminatta Forna
Whenever he was asked what somebody had died of he'd reply (with immense gravity), Lack of breath.
— Aminatta Forna
I temporarily became a surgeon for 'Memory of Love'. I spent two weeks in an operating theatre, watching amputations, and I loved it.
— Aminatta Forna
But what is a legend if not a story so great it has survived the retelling of countless generations?
— Aminatta Forna
My childhood ended in this horrible way. I lived in a country where I didn't trust anybody.
— Aminatta Forna
The preacher said, "She looks tar'd.' "Women's always tar'd,' said Tom. "That's just the way women is, 'cept at meetin' once an' again.
— John Steinbeck
If you want to know a country, read its writers.
— Aminatta Forna
A life, a history, whole patterns of existence altered, simply by doing nothing. The silent lie. The act of omission.
— Aminatta Forna
My family's a ruling family.
— Aminatta Forna
I'm a doctor's daughter. I'm not squeamish at all.
— Aminatta Forna
I learned about women -- how we are made into the women we've become, how we shape ourselves, how we shape each other.
— Aminatta Forna
Jung Chang was the first person to tell a grand historical, political story through a personal narrative.
— Aminatta Forna
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
