Ayobami Adebayo Quotes

Ayobami Adebayo

Profession : Writer

Birth : January 29, 1988

I wander around online, but until I hit my daily word count, I only leave my desk to make some tea, eat, or to answer the door. At 7 P.M., I give up and spend the rest of the evening catching up with the news.

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I don't suffer from SCD myself, but I do carry the gene. This means that if I married another person who carried the gene, there would be a danger our children would suffer from the disease.

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

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I have always been very interested in the idea of loneliness and the presumption that romantic relationships are supposed to rid you of that.

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I'm still startled when people ask me for writing advice.

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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

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

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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.

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My mother used to laugh that if they asked me to clean up my room, I would spend so much time reading every tiny bit of paper, a receipt or whatever, instead of throwing it in the trash.

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When I was a child, there were two Nigerian writers in every bookshop: Chinua Achebe and Wole Soyinka.

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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.

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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.

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