Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Never.

Never.

Okay.

Okay.

Yeah. I call it a radical honesty. Okay. And that's the only way that I can feel happy. Fiction really makes me happy when it's going well, really makes me happy. And I can tell when, you know, a few times in my life when I've held back in my fiction and I can tell, you know, I can tell that I am, in some ways it's like letting yourself down. I can tell. Yeah.

Yeah. I call it a radical honesty. Okay. And that's the only way that I can feel happy. Fiction really makes me happy when it's going well, really makes me happy. And I can tell when, you know, a few times in my life when I've held back in my fiction and I can tell, you know, I can tell that I am, in some ways it's like letting yourself down. I can tell. Yeah.

Can you say when you felt you held back? In some of the stories and the thing around your neck, I think that I, you know, I held back in a way.

Can you say when you felt you held back? In some of the stories and the thing around your neck, I think that I, you know, I held back in a way.

No, this is a different kind of why question. I guess because I just felt like maybe I just shouldn't go there. Maybe I shouldn't be as honest as I think. Maybe I shouldn't let this character be its full self in a way. His or her full self. I don't know. But anyway, the point is, I think if I learned anything from doing that, it's that it just doesn't make me happy. It doesn't feel true.

No, this is a different kind of why question. I guess because I just felt like maybe I just shouldn't go there. Maybe I shouldn't be as honest as I think. Maybe I shouldn't let this character be its full self in a way. His or her full self. I don't know. But anyway, the point is, I think if I learned anything from doing that, it's that it just doesn't make me happy. It doesn't feel true.

It doesn't feel authentic. So some of those short stories I don't like, actually. But no, dream count, no. I don't hold back. I go where the character takes me. It's a revelation.

It doesn't feel authentic. So some of those short stories I don't like, actually. But no, dream count, no. I don't hold back. I go where the character takes me. It's a revelation.

Yes. But I also think, I feel so strongly about literature, about fiction. I think it's our last frontier. It's only in literature that we can learn things that we cannot learn anywhere else. So journalism cannot tell us about human motivation. Journalism cannot go deep into... like the terrain of the human heart, which I think is really key for almost everything in the world.

Yes. But I also think, I feel so strongly about literature, about fiction. I think it's our last frontier. It's only in literature that we can learn things that we cannot learn anywhere else. So journalism cannot tell us about human motivation. Journalism cannot go deep into... like the terrain of the human heart, which I think is really key for almost everything in the world.

I mean, I really think the psychology of people can explain so much about the world. I mean, just the psychology of the people who are in leadership positions, I think, you know, Journalism can do that. Politics doesn't do that. To write nonfiction, especially about other people's lives, is to be constrained by certain things that you cannot possibly know.

I mean, I really think the psychology of people can explain so much about the world. I mean, just the psychology of the people who are in leadership positions, I think, you know, Journalism can do that. Politics doesn't do that. To write nonfiction, especially about other people's lives, is to be constrained by certain things that you cannot possibly know.

But I think fiction lets you just, it's the essential thing I think that we need when it's done well. As was done in this case.

But I think fiction lets you just, it's the essential thing I think that we need when it's done well. As was done in this case.

So, yes, inspired by her. The legal department of my publishers. Inspired by? Yeah, we need to use the right language. Inspired by her.

So, yes, inspired by her. The legal department of my publishers. Inspired by? Yeah, we need to use the right language. Inspired by her.