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Chris Abani
Chris Abani
Nigerian Author
Born: Dec 27, 1966
Me Men People Sometimes Think Women
Related authors: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn C. S. Lewis Frederick Douglass George Orwell Helen Keller Henry David Thoreau Mark Twain Zig Ziglar
Sometimes I feel very alone. I am a bit of a nomad. Many people in sort of emerging countries, emerging economies, find themselves displaced. So there is that sense, and so I'm part of a whole, I think, group of displaced people. Chris Abani
Alone People Sometimes Sense Group Think Bit Find Emerging Part Feel Countries Economies Nomad Sort Am Very Themselves Many Displaced Whole
I truly believe that writing is a continuum - so the different genres and forms are simply stops along the same continuum. Different ideas that need to be expressed sometimes require different forms for the ideas to float better. I don't write essays as often as I should. Chris Abani
Writing Better Sometimes Believe Write Simply Along Ideas Genres Truly Continuum Same Essays Often Stops Different Forms Different Genres Different Ideas Require Should Float Expressed Need
It takes me forever to actually finish something like a ten-page essay. But, when I do, I usually love what they are. It's a complicated relationship. Chris Abani
Love Me Relationship Complicated Something Finish Takes Like Forever Essay Actually
Men do communicate, often very directly, but women sometimes cannot accept how simple what we have to say is. Chris Abani
Women Communicate Simple Sometimes Men Say Directly Accept How Very Often Cannot
Like most writers, I find the Web is a wonderful distraction. Who doesn't need that last minute research before writing? Chris Abani
Writing Wonderful Before Research Last-Minute Distraction Find Minute Web Writers Like Most Who Last Need
My books are often shelved around those of Chinua Achebe and Margaret Atwood, or Chimamanda Adichie and Monica Ali. All of this depends, of course, on the bookstore and how conversant the shelf stocker is with the alphabet. Chris Abani
Ali Books Bookstore Those Alphabet Course Around Shelf How Often Depends Margaret Monica
My mother was English. My parents met in Oxford in the '50s, and my mother moved to Nigeria and lived there. She was five foot two, very feisty and very English. Chris Abani
Mother Parents Met Foot Feisty She Very Five Moved Oxford English Lived Nigeria Two
The Igbo used to say that they built their own gods. They would come together as a community, and they would express a wish. And their wish would then be brought to a priest, who would find a ritual object, and the appropriate sacrifices would be made, and the shrine would be built for the god. Chris Abani
God Together Made Wish Own Community Appropriate Say Would Would-Be Find Object Brought Ritual Priest Sacrifices Come Built Gods Then Used Who Express
My grand uncle was a traditional priest, and he would always say to me as a kid, 'We stand in our own light,' which essentially for him meant we were entirely responsible for a lot of what happens to us and for the ways in which our lives play out. Chris Abani
Me Light Uncle Own Our Our Lives Say Kid Ways Out Responsible Would Entirely Priest He Him Always Traditional Were Lot Essentially Happens Grand Which Us Meant Stand Lives Play
The privilege of being a writer is that you have this opportunity to slow down and to consider things. Chris Abani
You Opportunity Slow Down Consider Writer Privilege Being Things
I think a book that is over 400 pages should be split in two. I don't know that there's anything that interesting that can go on for 700 pages. I think that is a little bit indulgent. Chris Abani
Book Think Bit Split Over Indulgent Know Go Anything Interesting Little Little Bit Should Pages Two
I read mostly Irish, African, Japanese, South American, and African writers. You can count on Scandinavian literature for a certain kind of darkness, a modern mythic style. Chris Abani
You Darkness Style Kind Scandinavian Writers Count Mythic Mostly Read South Irish American Modern African Literature Japanese Certain
I had amazing intellectual privilege as a kid. My mom taught me to read when I was two or three. When I was five, I read and wrote well enough to do my nine-year older brother's homework in exchange for chocolate or cigarettes. By the time I was 10, I was reading Orwell, Tolstoy's 'War and Peace,' and the Koran. I was reading comic books, too. Chris Abani
War Time Mom Me Peace Amazing Three Reading Older Homework Too Enough Cigarettes Books Kid Brother Exchange Had Wrote Well Well Enough Read Comic Koran Comic Books Intellectual Five Privilege Taught Chocolate Tolstoy Orwell Two By The Time

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