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Dinaw Mengestu Quotes

As an undergraduate, I took a theology course titled Religion as Writing. If writing can be considered a form of faith, then inevitably doubt has to accompany it.

Dinaw Mengestu

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: ethiopian
Birth: 1978

Topics

Faith Religion Writing Doubt Course

I think one of the things that I picked up from Nigeria is the constant pressure to be excellent. Parents drill in this responsibility towards family, but also a responsibility toward making sure your family name is heralded.

Jidenna

Family Responsibility Parents Think

There's a part in a woman's soul, God has given it to every woman, and it's the part where you know whether he's telling the truth or not. Women see red flags.

Jessica White

Women God Truth Woman Soul Red

I have always found fact infinitely more interesting than myths and falsehoods.

John Brunner

Interesting More Always Fact Myths

You become the movie you are making.

Ang Lee

You Become Making Movie

In science, each new result, sometimes quite surprising, heralds a step forward and allows one to discard some hypotheses, even though one or two of these might have been highly favored.

Stanley B. Prusiner

Science Step Forward Result New Two

I grew up in Solihull, on the edge of what was then the Birmingham conurbation. It was a good place to write comedy from. I didn't feel allegiance to anything. I didn't have working-class pride or upper-class superiority.

Stewart Lee

Good Pride Feel Comedy Place Edge

Work is important to me. I want to do things for principle, not just for the sake of doing them.

Tracey Ullman

Work Me Doing Important Want Things

Religion is a reassurance - in fact, that's its only purpose.

Michel Onfray

Purpose Religion Only Fact In Fact

Sex keeps me in shape. I don't diet, I eat what I like. I love Mars bars and I smoke and drink. But I love running off in the middle of the day to make love. It really burns up calories.

Lisa Snowdon

Love Day Me Diet Sex Smoke

In order to be responsible, you need some discipline in your life. For a while I lost mine.

Donatella Versace

Life Discipline You Lost Need Order

I wanted to write something visual that I could read to the children. This was when I created the idea of Redwall Abbey in my imagination. As I wrote, the idea grew, and the manuscript along with it.

Brian Jacques

Children Imagination Write Something

If you have any power at all from being popular, then you have a duty to help people out.

Arabella Weir

Power People Help You Duty Out