Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Quotes

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.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: nigerian
  • Birth: September 15, 1977

Topics

CharacterExperienceStoryPersonal

You get married and have kids, and you get sick of having the government take your money and tell you what to do. I'm just a conservative guy.

Jim Jordan

MoneyGovernmentSickYouTellGuy

I'm not sure we could spell 'shale' in 2008.

Jim Ratcliffe

SureSpellCould

Being a teenager is as difficult as living with one. And we've all been there. Perhaps that's the reason we're so hard on them.

Melvin Burgess

LivingDifficultHardReasonBeen

All has been looted, betrayed, sold; black death's wing flashed ahead.

Anna Akhmatova

DeathBlackAheadBeenBetrayed

You lose your home, you lose your community, you lose your school, you lose your stuff.

Matthew Desmond

HomeCommunitySchoolYouLoseYour

The problem with the spectrum that is trans-ness and where people like Caitlyn Jenner lie, transitioning and being trans is more than a physical thing. Transition is a process.

Angelica Ross

LiePeopleProcessProblemMore

It's hard to make friends as an adult. You gotta work at it, you know? You have to ask people to lunch, and if you don't know them, it's weird.

Stephanie Beatriz

WorkPeopleLunchWeirdFriendsYou

With 'Outlander,' definitely the book fans were at the door, ready to go, as soon as we started. But it felt like it kind of crossed over into more of a general audience rapidly. That did surprise me - I thought it would take longer for general audiences to come around.

Ronald D. Moore

MeDoorBookThoughtSurpriseReady

I really don't know what makes a comedian. I think it's a family background and environment. Yet if you put the same ingredients in another person, he may never utter a funny line.

Bob Newhart

FamilyFunnyThinkEnvironmentYou

Independence is not a whim or an ambition. It is the necessary condition of our survival as an ethnic group.

Aslan Maskhadov

AmbitionIndependenceSurvivalGroup

Between children and parents, there is a difficulty of seeing each other simply as people.

Susan Minot

ChildrenParentsPeopleSeeingOther

TV is where a writer can write his novel.

Richard LaGravenese

WriteWhereWriterTVNovelHis

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