Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Quotes

Never again shall a single story be told as though it were the only one.

There are always two or three or four sides to every story.

Sometimes films ignore other points of view because it's simpler to tell the story that way, but the more genuine and sympathetic you are to different points of view and situations, the more real the story is.

I think as long as I can tell you a story about people that you understand, it doesn't matter if you don't like what they do; you understand why they did it.

It’d be a poor kind of world where there was just one explanation for things. ---Rhiow

Multiple descriptions are better than one.

There are just as many stories to be told in the dark spots s there are in the bright ones.

We need the skeletons of other stories to understand our own, sometimes.

Marley was dead, to begin with ... This must be distintly understood, or nothing wonderful can come of the story I am going to relate.

It's so easy to call something a Jewish story or a gay story or a woman's story. Aesthetically, if a story is not universal, it has failed. Your obligation is to the story. One rule creatively, and emotionally, is its universality.

We are surrounded by story.

The fact is, there aren't just two sides to any issue, there's almost always a range of responses, and "it depends" is almost always the right answer in any big question.

It is important to know the stories and histories of things, even if all we know is that we don't know.

The metaphors exist for the stories.

As human beings, the closest we can get to truth is through story.

Whoever wants to tell a variety of stories ought to have a variety of beginnings.

It's important to tell your story. It's important to listen.

You can start making up any kind of story if you want to.

Tell them stories. They need the truth you must tell them true stories, and everything will be well, just tell them stories.

You have to understand, my dears, that the shortest distance between truth and a human being is a story.

This matter of two sides to every question is bad logic and bad practice: sometimes there are no sides; sometimes there are a hundred.

You have to know the story that you're telling, and you have to know the tone in which the story is being told.

I know that my only chance at any kind of depth or profundity is to linger within the story, trying to make it distinguish itself.

The problem with most love stories in my opinion is that they're too simplistic.

History is not what happened 200 or 2,000 years ago; it's a story about what happened 200 or 2,000 years ago.