Tomi Adeyemi Quotes

For me, the best moments in storytelling are the ones where I feel I'm discovering something.

Give me a story which I connect with and then I am going to do it.

You need to be able to climb into a narrative and zip it up under your chin. You need to be able to see through the eyes of the hero, smell what he's smelling, hear what he's hearing.

Fiction is a particular kind of rhetoric, a way of thinking that I think can be useful in your life. It asks you to image the world through someone else's eyes, and it allows you to try to empathize with situations that you haven't actually experienced.

What I like about writing a stand alone novel is you're starting with a fresh world and fresh characters. Part of what I love about writing is that journey of discovery where it's all new to me as well.

Every kid has a story to tell!

Storytelling is what lights my fire.

When I was young, I assumed that authors must have traveled the world or done exotic things in order to tell great stories.

Nothing much interested me other than playing with language and telling stories and doing something with the wonders of the world around me.

I think we all have a responsibility to tell good stories.

As long as there are things to wonder about, there are stories to be written about them. That makes me happy, because writing about things seems to be my thing.

As a writer, it is my job to tell a story. I don't want to get involved in social commentary; I just want to show issues from a different point of view. I want to show issues from a perspective that may not be highlighted.

A book is a journey: It's a thing you agree to go on with somebody, and I think every reader's experience of a book is going to be different.

All I wanted to do was read, to be told stories. Stories were full of excitement and emotions and characters that entertained and often inspired.

I'm constantly surprised by human nature and humanity. And I think that's why I love what I do: because I love to story-tell and bring new characters to life.

Why do we write novels or make television about real things? It's the human condition and human suffering.

I look for stories everywhere.

We've all watched hundreds of movies from characters' points of view that are not our own. That's part of the gift movies give us.

I think the most rewarding part for me is kind of not knowing where the story's going next, and then finding out and being blown away by it.

Wherever the good stories are, I'm trying to place myself there.

I've learned that borders are where the actual ends, but also where the imagination and the story begins.

I can't tell a story just by deciding to tell a story, do it in a didactic way. I need to have my own emotion, to feel, 'Wow, there is something I can discover, I can create.'

The story, not the money, excites me.

In the case of the 'Saint' movie, I did do some research. I visited a few shelters. But usually, my stuff just comes out. I don't have any control over that.

I can't speak for readers in general, but personally I like to read stories behind which there is some truth, something real and above all, something emotional. I don't like to read essays on literature; I don't like to read critical or rational or impersonal or cold disquisitions on subjects.