Quotes by : Aminatta Forna

I learned about women -- how we are made into the women we've become, how we shape ourselves, how we....

How differently we behave in other peoples countries ... no sooner than we think we can get away with....

If you want to know a country, read its writers.

War had the effect of encouraging people to try to stay alive. Poverty, too. Survival was simply too....

How easily they spoke of love. And yet, when she'd needed the certainty of his feeling for her, he'd....

Adrian's tone suggested that the desire for something was all it took. They all live with endless possibilities,....

A life, a history, whole patterns of existence altered, simply by doing nothing. The silent lie. The....

The hollowness in his chest, the tense yearning, the loneliness he braces against, every morning until....

The artist Paul Klee described drawing a picture as taking a line for a walk. I have borrowed his words....

What the best novels and novelists do is to offer a different way of seeing.