Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Quotes & Sayings (Page 4)

“Creative writing programmes are not very necessary. They just exist so that people like us can make a living.”

“I sort of consider myself a Nigerian who spends a lot of time in the U.S.”

“Each of my novels has come from a different place, and the processes are not always entirely conscious. I have lived off and on in America for a number of years and so have accumulated observations, found things interesting, been moved to tell stories about them.”

“I like the U.S. and feel gratitude towards it.”

“I think it's possible to have been a happy child, as I was, and still question and push back with regard to societal conventions.”

“There has always been a strange dissonance between the public and the private in Nigeria.”

“I've always been curious about how much of our cultural baggage we bring to what and how we read. I suspect we bring a lot, although we like to think we don't.”

“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.”

“'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.”

“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.”