Phrase by 'Aminatta Forna'

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I temporarily became a surgeon for 'Memory of Love'. I spent two weeks in an operating theatre, watching amputations, and I loved it.

Author: Aminatta Forna - British Writer
  Love , Memory , Theatre , Loved


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.

Author: Aminatta Forna - British Writer
  People , Always , Heart , Story


My childhood ended in this horrible way. I lived in a country where I didn't trust anybody.

Author: Aminatta Forna - British Writer
  Way , Trust , Country , Childhood


No one ever sits you down at age eight and says, 'Aminatta, this is what's happened so far.' You have to work it out for yourself, and by the time you do, it's ancient history to many of the players. We're trying to make sense of the past, so we start to excavate our memories.

Author: Aminatta Forna - British Writer
  Time , Work , History , Age , Memories


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.

Author: Aminatta Forna - British Writer
  Life , You , Woman , Coffee


I'm a doctor's daughter. I'm not squeamish at all.

Author: Aminatta Forna - British Writer
  Daughter , Doctor


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