Aminatta Forna Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“A hospital is a good place to set various dilemmas.”

“I temporarily became a surgeon for 'Memory of Love'. I spent two weeks in an operating theatre, watching amputations, and I loved it.”

“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.”

“I'm a doctor's daughter. I'm not squeamish at all.”

“I get a very vague idea and - perhaps because I once was a journalist, or perhaps because that's what made me want to be a journalist - I go off and explore it for a bit, rather than mapping out a plot and then filling in the research.”