Sefi Atta

Quotes

• “I don't have much of an imagination, but I have a mind bank of details, which I play with. It's how I daydream, so writing like that is natural for me.”
• “People don’t fear the wind until it fells a tree. Then, they say it’s too much.”
• “You don't need attention to write. All you need is passion for your work and an overwhelming desire to tell a story you genuinely care about. Readers can sense your sincerity and it separates you from pretenders.”
• “I never wanted to be a writer; I just had stories I needed to tell.”
• “She drinks her Eva water. Their parents were taken down by cancer, heart attacks and strokes. Respectable diseases.”
• “Most of the children were shoeless and you were confronted with the dilemma that, no matter how much money you had and no matter where you could escape to overseas, you could not save yourself from your own country.”

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