Ayobami Adebayo
Novelist
1988-01-29
Ayobami Adebayo is a Nigerian novelist known for literary fiction exploring family, gender, and social life in contemporary Nigeria. Her debut novel Stay with Me received international critical acclaim.
Quotes by Ayobami Adebayo
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So love is like a test,but in what sense?To what end?Who was carrying out the test?But I think I did believe that Love had immense power to unearth all that was good in us,refine us and reveal to us the better versions of ourselves.
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So love is like a test,but in what sense?To what end?Who was carrying out the test?But I think I did believe that Love had immense power to unearth all that was good in us,refine us and reveal to us the better versions of ourselves.
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I'm still startled when people ask me for writing advice.
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When I was in my late teens, a couple of friends passed away suddenly. This was quite distressing, but after a while, as tends to happen when one is once or twice removed from grief, I stopped thinking about them all the time.
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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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