"When we had to do book reports, I would pick a book that no one read and just make it up and turn that in. I got praised for my imagination."

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For me, as I've said many times, the story is not research. The story is how the characters relate with each other and with the environment... I try to apply my imagination to what could have happened and how a little child could have viewed and processed the event.

— Uwem Akpan