Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Quotes

Narratives are very important to me.

Each day has a story to - deserves to be told, because we are made of stories. I mean, scientists say that human beings are made of atoms, but a little bird told me that we are also made of stories.

I'm interested in telling stories that add up to more than the entertainment of the story. That's what does it for me.

That's all that really matters in the end. Stories.

It occurred to me that everyone’s story matters to themselves, so the more I listened, the more she wanted to talk.

Our lives preserved. How it was; and how it be. Passing it along in the relay. That is what I work to do: to produce stories that save our lives.

The thing about stories is you have to pick the ones that last.

If stories come to you, care for them. And learn to give them away where they are needed. Sometimes a person needs a story more than food to stay alive.

We are told not to privilege one story above another. All the stories must be told. Well, maybe that's true, maybe all stories are worth hearing, but not all stories are worth telling.

If it isn't a wonderful story first, who cares how "important" it is?

There are so many different stories. You can choose to tell them, or not, but they certainly have the right to exist

You don't have anything if you don't have the stories.

Never underestimate the power of a good story.

Stories may well be lies, but they are good lies that say true things, and which can sometimes pay the rent.

I've told the same story twelve different ways, but I think that's just part of what writers do. Once may not be enough.

When we stop believing in gods we can start believing in their stories, I retort. There are of course no such things as miracles, but if there were and so tomorrow we woke up to find no more believers on earth, no more devout Christians, Muslims, Hindus, Jews, why then, sure the beauty of the stories would be a thing we could focus on because they wouldn't be dangerous any more, they would become capable of compelling the only belief that leads to truth, that is, the willing, disbelieving of the reader in a well-told tale.

It's all those stories and how they braid together that tells us who and what and where we are

We're all made of stories. When they finally put us underground, the stories are what will go on. Not forever, perhaps, but for a time. It's a kind of immortality, I suppose, bounded by limits, it's true, but then so's everything.

Everyone who tells a story tells it differently, just to remind us that everybody sees it differently.

All we have is the story we tell.

We're all made of stories. When they finally put us underground, the stories are what will go on.

For we are all bound in stories, and as the years pile up they turn to stone, layer upon layer, building our lives.

Every historical moment needs the stories to be told about it.

I think that story wins out over acting and that the thing as a whole is more important than the performances therein.

Stories, like conjuring tricks, are invented because history is inadequate for our dreams.