Ayobami Adebayo

I think there is a dissonance between how much is expected of you as a young person, whether you are a man or a woman: you are supposed to go to university; you get a master's degree, maybe two, particularly if you come from the middle class.

I'm still startled when people ask me for writing advice.

When I started working on 'Stay With Me,' I thought it would take two years to complete the novel.

To be transported into another world is my very favourite part of reading.

I admire Toni Morrison, Wole Soyinka, Margaret Atwood, James Baldwin, Elizabeth Strout, D. O. Fagunwa, Sefi Atta, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Colm Toibin and Junot Diaz. It's a long list that keeps growing.

Never lend people money you can't afford to give them as a gift.