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Ellah Wakatama Allfrey
15 quotes
“One doesn't just happen upon a belief that work must be meaningful, that our endeavours must be towards the well-being and betterment of our fellow human beings. It is something that is taught. And this college, is one of the places I learned that lesson.”
Ellah Wakatama Allfrey (born 1966) first seen 2016 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Ellah wakayama Allfery ’88,(October 11, 2016)
“This is a wonderful opportunity to be part of a team that has, over time, published with such great flair and innovation. I am excited to be joining Canongate and to have such an inspiring brief—to contribute to a list that reflects range, ambition, passion and a genuine belief in the power of writing to enrich and inform.”
Ellah Wakatama Allfrey (born 1966) first seen 2019 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Ella talks about her new position at Canongate,(June 14, 2019)
“my kids joke that I’m going to die with a pencil in my hand”
Ellah Wakatama Allfrey (born 1966) first seen 2020 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: An interview with Ella,(January 26,2020)
“Books are for pleasure and entertainment. For escape. They are also for information, discovery, guidance, discussion, debate and so much else besides”
Ellah Wakatama Allfrey (born 1966) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Books are about expressing ourselves as human beings, connecting with each other, telling our stories and imagining new worlds and new possibilities”
Ellah Wakatama Allfrey (born 1966) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“As we begin a national conversation on our reading, writing and engagement with books, it seems fitting to provoke a discussion about the reasons we think books (and their authors) are important”
Ellah Wakatama Allfrey (born 1966) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The National Conversation is an invitation to join some of our country’s most talented thinkers as they explore the ways in which literature can have an impact on our lives, and to engage in finding solutions to the challenges facing writers and readers in our complex world. Beyond the questions we’ll ask is the real hope that this will indeed be a conversation about an art form that is as varied and dynamic as those who produce it. A conversation that includes any and all of us who have ever fallen into the pages of a book and found a place that felt like home”
Ellah Wakatama Allfrey (born 1966) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“But I think that moving around absolutely has an impact. It’s your connection with language. I remember moving from one language to another as a child and finding it deeply traumatic. The fact that people who looked like me could not understand the language I was speaking had a big impact on me so when I first learnt how to speak English I had a very bad stutter”
Ellah Wakatama Allfrey (born 1966) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“In the Midwest, the weather is extreme; when it is hot, it is very, very hot and when it is cold, it is very, very cold. All that had a very big impact on me and my mother says I did not speak for six months while I was figuring things out and when I did start speaking English I had a stutter”
Ellah Wakatama Allfrey (born 1966) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Nothing is a guilty pleasure. I am a big science fiction junkie. I love crime fiction. But sometimes you reach the decision that life is too short. I have so many hours left to me and there are other things I need to read”
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“Sometimes I wish things had been done better but I try to switch off that side of my brain but you will know yourself, it is impossible to do that. And if I want to change too much then I will stop reading the book. I used to have a rule that I would finish every book I started but if it is not good enough I will stop because now I realise I have got limited reading time so it has to be really good”
Ellah Wakatama Allfrey (born 1966) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I would be terrified but you know, terror is not a reason not to do something infact that is a good reason to do something”
Ellah Wakatama Allfrey (born 1966) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“A writer is going to write a novel and that writer may or may not only be from Uganda. I think too often when people are thinking about writers from the continent, there is this huge responsibility to produce some kind of great African book and that is nonsense. One writer writes one book that does or doesn’t succeed and that book will not necessarily be a Ugandan novel”
Ellah Wakatama Allfrey (born 1966) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“People may say there is no reading culture but people always read newspapers, we are always in conversation and people spend money for example on locally produced DVDs in Nigeria. Making books affordable is the biggest thing because for example if someone produced pulp fiction that is written really well and was not costly, that would improve the reading culture”
Ellah Wakatama Allfrey (born 1966) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“You can’t always change a government or stop the government from taking resources that should be dedicated to education but you can as editors work together to professionalise and set up standards and to attract all this to you”
Ellah Wakatama Allfrey (born 1966) first seen 2014 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Ellah Wakatama Allfrey on how she became an editor and why editing should be professionalised,30 June 2014