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I'm a doctor's daughter. I'm not squeamish at all.

Most writers I know go for word counts, and I used to be a journalist, so I guess that's ingrained.

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What ultimately happened is that my country had a war. I think it would be extraordinary, as a writer, not to want to write about that.

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My family's a ruling family.

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Jung Chang was the first person to tell a grand historical, political story through a personal narrative.

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A hospital is a good place to set various dilemmas.

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No one ever sits you down at age eight and says, 'Aminatta, this is what's happened so far.' You have to work it out for yourself, and by the time you do, it's ancient history to many of the players. We're trying to make sense of the past, so we start to excavate our memories.

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I temporarily became a surgeon for 'Memory of Love'. I spent two weeks in an operating theatre, watching amputations, and I loved it.

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Increasingly, there are those of us who write from outside the center, and those are the writers that I'm most interested in because they bring me into worlds that I did not previously know. And that, as a writer, is what I try to create.

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I'm a doctor's daughter. I'm not squeamish at all.

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I was brought up in a household where you stood up to be counted.

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My childhood ended in this horrible way. I lived in a country where I didn't trust anybody.

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