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28 quotes by Chris Abani

The poem "Ode to Joy" on a wall in the Dutch city of Leiden Christopher "Chris" Abani (born 27 December 1966) is a Nigerian author. He is part of a new generation of Nigerian writers working to convey to an English-speaking audience the experience of those born and raised in "that troubled African nation".
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I have to have three or four books going simultaneously. If I'm not impressed in the first 20 pages, I don't bother reading the rest... →

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That women are mysterious and unknowable is something every young man grows up believing. Men, on the other hand, never think of themselves as... →

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If I don't get at least one e-mail every ten minutes, I feel unloved. Even junk mail makes me feel seen. Sad, I know. Sigh.

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In this time of the Internet and nonfiction, to be on an actual bookshelf in an actual bookstore is exciting in itself.

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Fiction and poetry are my first loves, but the really beautiful lyrical essay can do so much that other forms cannot.

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I read mostly Irish, African, Japanese, South American, and African writers. You can count on Scandinavian literature for a certain kind of darkness... →

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Every successful artist comes from a family - parents or siblings or both - who, although equally gifted, chose not to pursue the treacherous and... →

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I had amazing intellectual privilege as a kid. My mom taught me to read when I was two or three. When I was five, I read and wrote well enough to do... →

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My search is always to find ways to chronicle, to share and to document stories about people, just everyday people. Stories that offer... →

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Men do communicate, often very directly, but women sometimes cannot accept how simple what we have to say is.

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My father was educated in Cork, in the University of Cork, in the '50s.

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I love essays, but they're not always the best way to communicate to a larger audience.

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Like most writers, I find the Web is a wonderful distraction. Who doesn't need that last minute research before writing?

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