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Bim Adewunmi Quotes

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Bim Adewunmi is a British writer and journalist. She is a producer for This American Life and previously worked as a culture writer at BuzzFeed and The Guardian.

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A good editor is not there to slash and burn—they are your first and fiercest ally, not your enemy.

It’s necessary to be confident in your voice and your ability, because you need that to write.

Leave some room for the reader.’ You can’t write all the way to the very edge of the page.

An important thing that’s as good as a motto? Don’t outstay your welcome in people’s ears.

You’re busy making sense out of smoke. That’s building, not blocking.

Just because something happened to you doesn’t mean putting it unvarnished and unquestioned into a story or a book isn’t irresponsible, or stupid, or even dangerous.

The content of the story instructs you on how to tell it

Beginnings are Easier Than Endings.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Bim Adewunmi (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.