Aminatta Forna Quotes

Aminatta Forna — British Writer born on December 30, 1964,

Aminatta Forna is a Scottish-born British writer. She is the author of a memoir, The Devil that Danced on the Water, and three novels: Ancestor Stones , The Memory of Love and The Hired Man . Her novel The Memory of Love was awarded the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for "Best Book" in 2011, and was also shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction. Forna is Professor of Creative Writing at Bath Spa University and was, until recently, Sterling Brown Distinguished Visiting Professor at Williams College in Massachusetts... (wikipedia)

A hospital is a good place to set various dilemmas.

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

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.

I don't have very many little fetishes, but the one I do have is that I like a particular mug to drink out of. It's just a small china cup, and I get very upset if my husband moves it.

Everyone thinks I have a coffee plantation in Sierra Leone, but I have a cashew crop project. I wrote about a woman who owns a coffee plantation! When you are talking about a woman writer coming from a hot country, there's a complete assumption that she is writing about her own life.

Aminatta Forna Quotes

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