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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie on her writing quirks and how she deals with writer’s block

Feminist author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is best known for her books like 'Half of a Yellow Sun', 'Purple Hibiscus', among others and she is an inspiration for many aspiring writers. But did you know about this one particular thing that helps Adichie in her creative and writing process? In a recent interview, the author revealed the one important thing that helps her writing process as she told Bustle, "I'm not even joking when I say that chocolate is a fundamental part of [my] process of creativity... That perfect in between — not too milky, not too dark. With a bit of hazelnuts."

Elaborating on what makes her write, she further said in the interview, “Writing is the love of my life. It’s the thing that makes me happiest when it is going well — apart from the people I love...Fiction gives me a transcendent joy [where] I feel as though I am suspended in my fictional walls."

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