Aminatta Forna Quotes

I was always at heart a novelist and wanted to tell a bigger story, so I wanted to create people who told other kinds of truths than literal truths.

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• We should read music in the same way that an educated adult will read a book: in silence, but imagining the sound.

  

  Zoltan Kodaly
  • Music
  • Book
  • Silence

• I love Bridget Fonda.

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • Love
  • I Love
  • Fonda

• I wrote my first book when I was 15 years old. And my second book '1,2,3 Publish Me!' shows everyone how writing a book is done in just the three secret editing levels I discovered!

  

  Manika
  • Writing
  • Book
  • Secret

• There had always been black people in and out of our house, and from the outset I had been taught that for them life was defined by struggle and filled with injustice.

  

  Carl Bernstein
  • People
  • Life
  • House

• As long as a film stays unmade, the book is entirely yours, it belongs to the writer. As soon as you make it into a film, suddenly more people see it than have ever read the book.

  

  Iain Banks
  • People
  • Long
  • Book

• I have to stay calm, cool, and collected.

  

  Canelo Alvarez
  • Cool
  • Calm
  • Stay

• Reverence is fatal to literature.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Literature
  • Reverence
  • Fatal

• I am an unrepentant tweetaholic. I use the communications service all day long to discover news, interesting tidbits and, of course, to flack the work of our tech and media news site, Re/code.

  

  Kara Swisher
  • Work
  • Long
  • Interesting

• Playing Juliet in 'Heavenly Creatures' changed my life, and the role of Clementine in' Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind' opened many new doors creatively.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Life
  • Mind
  • New

• I have never had the ambition to be famous for nothing. You have to do something with your life.

  

  Gabriella Wilde
  • Life
  • Famous
  • Ambition

• Sometimes, it's just unfortunate you get injured in the game. But you can definitely take strides to prevent those things.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • Game
  • You
  • Sometimes

• You are an athlete when you're onstage. You can't get tired.

  

  Faye Dunaway
  • You
  • Tired
  • Athlete

• The existing U.N. can be found in the writings of early Communist leaders.

  

  G. Edward Griffin
  • Found
  • Early
  • Communist

• Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Great
  • Live
  • Character

• Back when I was growing up, it was like, 'You're too young to know what you want. We're telling you what you want. It doesn't matter if you like it. And you are stupid. Just so you know.'

  

  Wendi McLendon-Covey
  • Up
  • Want
  • Growing

• With fandom, people are sensitive, and sometimes defensive, about their experiences.

  

  Rainbow Rowell
  • People
  • Sometimes
  • Sensitive

• Even before I went to the UN, I often would want to say something in a meeting - only woman at the table - and I'd think, 'OK well, I don't think I'll say that. It may sound stupid.' And then some man says it, and everybody thinks it's completely brilliant, and you are so mad at yourself for not saying something.

  

  Madeleine Albright
  • May
  • Man
  • Woman

• My grandparents used to bring me books every time they saw me.

  

  Gabrielle Zevin
  • Time
  • Me
  • Grandparents

• Tennis doesn't encourage any kind of intellectual development.

  

  Jim Courier
  • Tennis

• I've been trying to pinpoint what keeps drawing me back to the Gulf of Mexico, because I'm Canadian, and I can draw no ancestral ties.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • Drawing
  • Ties
  • Keeps

• I believe it is my job to do everything I can so that everyone in our society feels safe, feels that justice is not an abstract concept but a fact of life for all Americans.

  

  Kimberly Guilfoyle
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Job

• Advances in technology - hugely beneficial though they are - render us vulnerable in new ways. For instance, our interconnected world depends on elaborate networks: electric power grids, air traffic control, international finance, just-in-time delivery, and so forth.

  

  Martin Rees
  • Time
  • World
  • Power

• Prince Bismarck once said that one-third of the students of German universities broke down from overwork; another third broke down from dissipation, and the other third ruled Germany.

  

  John F. Kennedy
  • German
  • Prince

• I was always at heart a novelist and wanted to tell a bigger story, so I wanted to create people who told other kinds of truths than literal truths.

  

  Aminatta Forna
  • People
  • Heart