23 Tomi Adeyemi Quotes for You to Enjoy

Tomi Adeyemi

Nigerian Writer

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You can make something out of every unfinished story and every rejection if you work at it. Tomi Adeyemi

Work You Unfinished Every Rejection Out Something Make Story

If you want to write, just believe that you can, because it's about perseverance. Tomi Adeyemi

You Perseverance Believe About Write Because Just Want

Death is something that I am still trying to figure out a healthy relationship with. Tomi Adeyemi

Death Relationship Healthy Out Something Am Still Trying Figure

My very first story, I was around 5, and I really just wrote myself. When I was 5, I loved myself so much I gave myself a twin named Tomi. Everything started out fine. But then I didn't write another black character until I was 18. Tomi Adeyemi

Every first draft sucks, so when you have your favorite novel, and you're like, 'Wow, this is a masterpiece,' and then you write your first draft, and you're like, 'This is really bad,' and then you're like 'I can't do this because this is nowhere close.' When, in reality, the book you loved so much started out just as crappy. Tomi Adeyemi

You Reality Book First Every Favorite Out Bad Wow Write Like Masterpiece Because Close Just Crappy Loved Then Much Really Your Sucks Novel Nowhere Draft Started

I had a lot of different reasons for writing the book, but at its core was the desire to write for black teenage girls growing up reading books they were absent from. That was my experience as a child. 'Children of Blood and Bone' is a chance to address that. To say you are seen. Tomi Adeyemi

You Experience Book Writing Black Girl Seen Reading Bone Teenage Teenage Girls Address Books Say Absent Write Had Reading Books Were Lot Blood Up Child Children Different Different Reasons Reasons Growing Growing Up Desire Chance Core

You're never wasting your time as long as you learn from every single thing you do, whether you feel like those attempts are successful or not. Tomi Adeyemi

Time You Long Single Every Those Never Attempts Feel Like Learn Single Thing Whether Successful Your Thing Wasting Every Single Thing

I am a firm believer that the craziest stories that have been told and are being told are in anime. They have character arcs that go over, like, 400 episodes, like a 400-episode character arc. Tomi Adeyemi

Character Arc Anime Firm Firm Believer Over Like Am Go Been Being Stories Craziest Episodes Believer

I've been writing stories all my life. My very first story had two little black girls riding horses. They were both me, too, so that's how into me I was. Tomi Adeyemi

The things I want to do mostly involve writing. Tomi Adeyemi

Writing Involve Mostly Want Things

Everyone has a story that they read when they were younger that influenced them. Tomi Adeyemi

Everyone Read Were Influenced Story Them Younger

I didn't say I have to be a writer, but I did say that I needed to publish at least one book. Tomi Adeyemi

Book Publish Say One Book At Least One Writer Least Did Needed

The YA author community is generally pretty friendly, and they care. Tomi Adeyemi

Care Community Pretty Generally Ya Friendly Author

With a fantasy world, it's like, this is my world. I literally made it. So if I tell you something, you do have to sit back and observe more. You need to sit back and listen more to understand what is going on or what's happening in the world. And I think there's a lot of power in that. Tomi Adeyemi

As writers, our craft makes us sit alone at a desk and hammer away at our novel. Doing that day in and day out makes it really easy to forget that there's a whole community of writers out there, and they love contributing to other writers' success! Tomi Adeyemi

Success Love Alone Day Sit Community Other Our Out Easy Writers Day-Out Makes Doing Hammer Contributing Forget Craft Us Really Whole Novel Away Desk

If you want to be traditionally published, then you most likely want to get a literary agent. To sign with an agent, you need to send them a query letter, but agents can get up to 20,000 query letters a year. With numbers like that, it helps to get in front of agents with every opportunity you have. Tomi Adeyemi

You Opportunity Year Every Sign Like Most Likely Up Get Send Front Want Literary Them Agent Then Agents Helps Letter Letters Published Every Opportunity Need Numbers

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