• I can write with authority only about what I know well, which means that I end up using surface details of my own life in my fiction.

    Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: I can write with authority only about what I know well, which means that I end up using surface details of my own life in my fiction.
    "Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Continental Divides". Interview with Joseph Klarl, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 14, 2013.