Tomi Adeyemi

Quotes by Tomi Adeyemi

• Every first draft sucks, so when you have your favorite novel, and you're like, 'Wow, this is a masterpiece,' and then you write your first draft, and you're like, 'This is really bad,' and then you're like 'I can't do this because this is nowhere close.' When, in reality, the book you loved so much started out just as crappy.

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• I had a lot of different reasons for writing the book, but at its core was the desire to write for black teenage girls growing up reading books they were absent from. That was my experience as a child. 'Children of Blood and Bone' is a chance to address that. To say you are seen.

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• You can make something out of every unfinished story and every rejection if you work at it.

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• You're never wasting your time as long as you learn from every single thing you do, whether you feel like those attempts are successful or not.

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