Irene Sabatini

Irene Sabatini in 2010

Irene Sabatini is a Zimbabwean fiction writer [1] who won an Orange award for new writers in 2010.

Quotes

• How my imagination soared — the moon seemed so close that I felt I could reach out and touch it. And then my mind wandered: what are those noises outside?
  • National Geographic
• The writing seemed to just spiral out of me, and if I had to pick a time when I really started this journey it would be that wonderful quiet morning on a verandah so many years ago in the Colombian countryside...
  • Irene Sabatini Website
• I think that literature, when it’s good, as opposed to journalism, gives you the freedom to be the characters, to enter into their lives, their psyche and so their experiences become, in a way, yours.
  • What these works of fiction have allowed me to do is to enter the pain and despair, the hope, to share in the struggles of certain characters that I have identified with (because of the artistry of the writers in making these individuals come alive).
    • Institute of Education Alumni Life Issue 33 Summer 2010
    • That’s what’s fun about writing fiction - you start from a certain point of reality and then, you fly away.https://afreadaarchive.wordpress.com/category/quote/
• But that’s what’s great about books- they carry you up, out and away, lifting you away from the mundane to the extra ordinary.
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• Allow this book to take you on a journey that will capture both your head and your heart.
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Quotes about Irene Sabatini

• ...Irene Sabatini created two unforgettable fictional characters who leapt off the page.—Bernardine Evaristo