Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Novelist and essayist
Reading too many books at the same time.
What is your worst intellectual habit?
Question
Whom do you read even though you disagree with them?
Attention & the world
Originally asked
Vox, to writers and thinkers, 9 Questions, 2017
Vox's fixed 9 Questions format asks this verbatim across respondents.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Checking email when I don’t know an answer.
Sean Illing, Vox, “9 questions” series, 10 June 2017 source ↗
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Henry Rollins
Musician, writer and broadcaster
Rushing to judgment. Looking for the bad in someone else before anything else.
Mark Cuban
Entrepreneur and investor; owner of the Dallas Mavericks
I’ll get half way through a book and then jump to another.
Celeste Ng
Novelist
I don’t believe anything is black and white, so I’m always searching for nuance. On the whole I think this is a positive thing, but it also means I almost never give an unqualified answer.
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