17 Ayobami Adebayo Quotes for You to Enjoy

Ayobami Adebayo

Nigerian Writer

Born: Jan 29, 1988

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When I had a full-time job, I would write dialogue and sketch characters on my commute and during meetings. Now, I forsake showers and regular meals and stay at my desk for hours, taking breaks to drink tea and eat something sweet, usually cake. Ayobami Adebayo

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I am interested in the idea that people should be able to define their own happiness. Ayobami Adebayo

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I come from a part of Nigeria where a lot of value is placed on implicit communication. The 'well brought up' child is the one who can pick up nonverbal cues from adults and interpret them correctly. Ayobami Adebayo

Never lend people money you can't afford to give them as a gift. Ayobami Adebayo

You People Money Gift Give Never Afford Lend Them

I wanted to explore expectations we have of people - what a woman should be, what a man should be. And if they don't meet our own interpretation of who they should be because of their gender, their background, their ethnic group, we then come to conclusions about them that are not accurate. Ayobami Adebayo

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Wole Soyinka's 'Death and the King's Horseman' is a play I go back to and I read often. Ayobami Adebayo

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There's a Yoruba proverb which roughly translates into, 'What turns its face to one person has turned its back on the other.' It's always made me think about how deeply subjective our experience of the world can be. Ayobami Adebayo

I'd always been interested in Nigeria's past. Ayobami Adebayo

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I'm still very interested in the things that happened in the '80s and the '70s because I think that they were very important years for Nigeria. In the '80s, we were under a military dictatorship for quite a while, and I think that the way we engage with our country as citizens was shaped in many ways by the events that took place in that time. Ayobami Adebayo

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There is a strong view in Nigeria, as in many other cultures, that a marriage is not complete without children. I don't agree; I'm wary of the idea that people have to have some particular functionality in order to be full members of society. Ayobami Adebayo

I established my first writing routine when I was 13. The school year had just ended, and I'd won a stack of books for being the best student in a number of subjects. The pile included several 60-leaved notebooks that I decided to fill with short stories. Ayobami Adebayo

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Usually, by the time I hit 'save' before taking a nap, my word count has gone down, but the world I'm creating feels more tangible than it did before. Ayobami Adebayo

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To be transported into another world is my very favourite part of reading. Ayobami Adebayo

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I used to think that most published writers, the ones I admired, had a muse, or a special connection to the universe, to nature, or to aliens - something inaccessible to me that caused their prose to flow onto the page, already perfect. Ayobami Adebayo

I think there is a dissonance between how much is expected of you as a young person, whether you are a man or a woman: you are supposed to go to university; you get a master's degree, maybe two, particularly if you come from the middle class. Ayobami Adebayo

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