Aminatta Forna Quotes

• If you want to know a country, read its writers.

  Aminatta Forna

  Country, Want, Knows

  "Survival instincts" by Aminatta Forna, www.theguardian.com. April 24, 2009.

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• All liars ... lie to protect themselves, to shield their egos from the raw pain of truth.

  Aminatta Forna

  Pain, Liars, Lying

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• War had the effect of encouraging people to try to stay alive. Poverty, too. Survival was simply too hard-won to be given up lightly.

  Aminatta Forna

  War, People, Survival

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• I was brought up in a household where you stood up to be counted.

  Aminatta Forna

  Stood Up, Household

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• What ultimately happened is that my country had a war. I think it would be extraordinary, as a writer, not to want to write about that.

  Aminatta Forna

  Country, War, Writing

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• The Watch is a powerful tale, courageous both in concept and creation: an ancient tale made modern, passed through different narrators in extraordinary shape-shifting prose that makes this not just an important novel, but a remarkable read.

  Aminatta Forna

  Powerful, Important, Narrators

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• Jung Chang was the first person to tell a grand historical, political story through a personal narrative.

  Aminatta Forna

  Political, Historical, Stories

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