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

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