- My Time
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- How
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.'
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I write from real life. I am an unrepentant eavesdropper and a collector of stories. I record bits of overheard dialogue.
- Imagination
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Emotion
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- Nov 07, 2020
Non-fiction, and in particular the literary memoir, the stylised recollection of personal experience, is often as much about character and story and emotion as fiction is.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would come, many years later, to understand why 'To Kill A Mockingbird' is considered 'an important novel', but when I first read it at 11, I was simply absorbed by the way it evoked the mysteries of childhood, of treasures discovered in trees, and games played with an exotic summer friend.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sometimes novels are considered 'important' in the way medicine is - they taste terrible and are difficult to get down your throat, but are good for you.
- Character
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Gaddafi
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Ideas
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Been
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- Nov 07, 2020
There has always been a strange dissonance between the public and the private in Nigeria.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
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'.
- Find
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- Nov 07, 2020
I find that women... deal with immigration differently. And I'm interested in that.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
'No Sweetness Here' is the kind of old-fashioned social realism I have always been drawn to in fiction, and it does what I think all good literature should: It entertains you.
- Curious
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- Nov 07, 2020