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Alexandra Fuller

English Author

Born: 1969

Africa Love Me Think Writing You

Related authors: A. A. Milne H. G. Wells J. K. Rowling Lewis Carroll Mary Shelley Samuel Johnson Simon Sinek Terry Pratchett

Until I read Anne Frank's diary, I had found books a literal escape from what could be the harsh reality around me. After I read the diary, I had a fresh way of viewing the both literature and the world. From then on, I found I was impatient with books that were not honest or that were trivial and frivolous. Alexandra Fuller

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In retrospect, I have come to recognise just how astounding my mother was during our childhood. She kept a woodwork shop and made beautiful furniture, as well as raising the pair of us in a society dominated by men. There really is nothing like war to reveal the power of patriarchy, but she always retained her independence. Alexandra Fuller

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I always knew mum loved me - tough, look-after-yourself love, as if she knew she wouldn't always be there. Alexandra Fuller

Love Me Tough Knew She Always Loved Mum

In general, I almost always watch foreign films. Alexandra Fuller

Films General Almost Always Foreign Watch

I remember Karoi as a very hot, flat place, but in reality, it is all hills. We just lived next to an airstrip - the only flat piece of land around. That was my world as a three-year-old and sums up the indelible power of memory to a young child. Alexandra Fuller

I grew up in southern Africa but was born in England, so my family was afflicted with the stiff upper lip of the British. When coupled with the violence we saw as children, that can be a fatal combination. Fortunately, I have an outlet for trauma in my writing. Alexandra Fuller

I write and I read, and I write and read my way into and out of ideas and life. And that's what we do. That's what storytellers do. Alexandra Fuller

Life Way Out Write Ideas Read Storytellers

I did try to write fiction. I wrote 10 novels. And they were all just awful. Alexandra Fuller

Try Write Wrote Were Did Just Fiction Novels Awful

Yes, as an oppressed people, American Indians have this epic burden, but first and foremost, they're human: sometimes a mess, sometimes funny or sad, at times very wise, and other times not wise at all - a lot like me. Alexandra Fuller

I'm unconventional and eccentric and talk things out, and it seemed that the person I married - maybe in reaction - got quieter and more conventional over time. It felt as if we were putting each other in a straitjacket. Alexandra Fuller

There are real consequences when women speak out. It's really dangerous, and it takes real courage. We are still speaking out against a white male majority. Forget the glass ceiling. We haven't even broken the glass floor! Alexandra Fuller

I'm a working writer; this is my job. So it matters to me that it's good. I sweat over every word. I don't just vomit this stuff up. It's agony. The only thing that comes close is childbirth, except it's like being in labor for eighteen months. Alexandra Fuller

Good Me Word Job Matters Every Months Only Except Writer Vomit Stuff Over Like Up Labor Close Childbirth Just Being Eighteen The Only Thing Sweat Working Agony Thing

I look around and pay attention to what around me is not being talked about, and then I talk about it with as much humour and honesty as I can. All my books have been that way. Alexandra Fuller

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For me, writing is really an agony. I feel as if I have a huge, luminous idea that has the potential to be really profound, and then when I set it down on paper, I find the power of the idea has been hugely weakened in the process of transmission. Alexandra Fuller

I have heard over and over again that the drilling business is a dangerous business, and death is an expected part of the game, but I've also heard of the way that safety violations, human and environmental laws, and a concern for the local culture are flaunted in pursuit of money. Alexandra Fuller

For a memoir to really succeed, the author has to do such hard work before they come to the page. They have to do a brutal self-examination of everything they believe to be true. Alexandra Fuller

Work Hard Work Be True Before Believe Everything Memoir Brutal True Come Self-Examination Author Succeed Really Page Hard

In southern and central Africa, tragedy roared at us, and we roared back. We shared dramas publicly, bled them on the corridors of hospitals, laid our corpses on the beds of neighbors, held our sorrows up in full light. We were volume ten about our madness and disorder, even if we were also resilient and enduring and tough. Alexandra Fuller

Madness Light Tough Dramas Back Our Corpses Neighbors Corridor About Ten Hospitals Volume Shared Bled Also Sorrows Beds Were Tragedy Up Southern Africa Enduring Laid Central Them Us Held Disorder Full Even Publicly Resilient

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