Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Quotes

I'm not really an autobiographical writer, though I use lots of stuff from my life to make my stories seem real. But when I actually write about myself, I get very confused.

I've always kind of ripped from real life to some degree or at least how I'm feeling in the moment. In fact, maybe that's really it. In anything I've ever written, all the characters sound like me, which I don't think is a bad thing.

I try to write about things, places, events, and phenomena I know about personally. That helps make the novels more genuine.

Like most writers, I write about what has happened to me as that involves the minimum amount of research.

I think it's nearly impossible to write something fictional without having it be about yourself in some way or another.

All my characters have got a big slice of me in them. A big piece of me, because it's my dialogue and this is the way I think and talk.

Using a first-person narrator is simply a matter of hearing the voice inside yourself.

Because I write fiction, I don't write autobiography, and to me they are very different things. The first-person narrative is a very intimate thing, but you are not addressing other people as 'I' - you are inhabiting that 'I.'

All my songs come from me because I only seem able to write about myself and my experiences.

I can't remove the autobiographical slant from the things I write. You always bring yourself into what you're writing.

When I started writing 'A Million Little Pieces,' I felt like it was the right story with the style I had been looking for, and I just kept going.

I've always seen writing as a way of telling the truth. For me, writing is about truth. I have always tried to be faithful to my own experience.

I don't write autobiographically.

We've always written from personal experiences.

I always tell people, I never get writer's block because it's coming straight from my brain, like, real-life experiences. I'm like the news. I'm just reporting it for myself.

Look, anything any writer writes is going to be on some level autobiographical. Part of the funny/sad thing is that you don't always know how autobiographical you're being.

I write about what happens to me. It's all there. I couldn't do it any other way.

Our own lives always influence the way we write.

I think it's easier for me to write from experience.

In some ways, every character we write, especially the protagonist, is some version of ourselves, as a writer/director, even if they aren't the same gender.

How do you tell a story that you're a part of without it being a big ego trip?

Each day I feel a little differently; some times I try to write something that's fictitious and then there's other times where I try to write something that's true.

Everything I've written is personal - it's the only way I know how to write.

My preferred style is to write in first person, so I always have to play around with possible narrator voices until I find something that works.

Whenever I'm writing a book, small details from my life always creep in.