People create stories create people; or rather stories create people create stories. — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
Nigeria has had a complicated colonial history. My work has examined that part of our story extensively. — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
There is no story that is not true, [...] The world has no end, and what is good among one people is… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
If you don't like someone's story, write your own. If you don't like what somebody says, say what it is you don't… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
If you only hear one side of the story, you have no understanding at all. — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
When I began going to school and learned to read, I encountered stories of other people and other lands. — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
It has always been quite apparent to me that no important story can fail to tell us something of value to us. — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
Unless I'm writing in the Igbo language, I use a language developed elsewhere, which is English. That affects the way I write.… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
If you're rooted to a spot, you miss a lot of the grace. So you keep moving, and this is the way… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
Children are young, but they're not naive. And they're honest. They're not going to keep wide awake if the story is boring.… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
Once a novel gets going and I know it is viable, I don't then worry about plot or themes. These things will… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
Stories serve the purpose of consolidating whatever gains people or their leaders have made or imagine they have made in their existing… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
We have heard stories about white men who make the powerful guns and the strong drinks and took slaves away across the… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
In fact, I thought that Christianity was very a good and a very valuable thing for us. But after a while, I… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
“...stories are not always innocent;...they can be used to put you in the wrong crowd, in the party of the man who… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
When I'm writing, I really want to satisfy myself. I've got a story that I am working on and struggling with, and… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
What I can say is that it was clear to many of us that an indigenous African literary renaissance was overdue. A… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
There is something about important stories that is not just the message, but also the way that message is conveyed, the arrangement… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
We live in a society that is in transition from oral to written. There are oral stories that are still there, not… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
Some people flinch when you talk about art in the context of the needs of society thinking you are introducing something far… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
The story of this man who had killed a messenger and hanged himself would make interesting reading. One could almost write a… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
I believe in the complexity of the human story, and that there's no way you can tell that story in one way… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
Writing has always been a serious business for me. I felt it was a moral obligation. A major concern of the time… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
For people who are coming out of an oral tradition, it is very exciting to get into reading and writing and it… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
This is not pessimism but rather casting a cold eye on things. It is only one man's story, and I think that… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
It is the story that owns and directs us. It is the thing that makes us different from cattle; it is the… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
It is only the story...that saves our progeny from blundering like blind beggars into the spikes of the cactus fence.The story is… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
Only the story can continue beyond the war and the warrior. The story outlives the sound of the war drum... The story… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
I couldn't tell you why but now I know a story is in fact where you discover who you are, where a… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
There are things the story must have or else look incomplete. And these will almost automatically present themselves. When they don't, you… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
Once you allow yourself to identify with the people in a story, then you might begin to see yourself in that story… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
I think as you grow up and you see things which are around you and you ask questions and you hear the… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
Writing is like wrestling; you are wrestling with ideas and with the story. There is a lot of energy required. At the… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
When I began going to school and learned to read, I encountered stories of other people and other lands. In one of… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
There is that great proverb - that until the lions have their own historians, the history of the hunt will always glorify… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
Art is created to make us, to make our passage through the world better, fruitful - and I would say that every… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
“In such a regime, I say you died a good death if your life had inspired someone to come forward and shoot your murdered… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share
“Do not despair. I know you will not despair. You have a manly and a proud heart. A proud heart can survive a general… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share
My son even if you want to fall, at least fall where your bones can be gathered — Chinua Achebe Copy Share
“And so Mr. Brown came to be respected even by the clan, because he trod softly on its faith.” — Chinua Achebe Copy Share
“I have learned that a man who makes trouble for others is also making it for himself.” — Chinua Achebe Copy Share
In fact, I thought that Christianity was very a good and a very valuable thing for us. But after a while, I began to… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share
I find Nigeria very frustrating. I am not alone in this. There are many Nigerians abroad. As you know, the brain drain is just… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share
I do not actually see how art, literature can be anything other that being in that domain of trying to tell us, trying to… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share
Democracy is not something you put away for ten years, and then in the 11th year you wake up and start practicing again. We… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share
When I began going to school and learned to read, I encountered stories of other people and other lands. In one of my essays,… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share
Almost nobody dances sober, unless they happen to be insane. H. P. LOVECRAFT, attributed, Telling It Like It Is Dancing is very important nowadays.… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share
“Then listen to me,' he said and cleared his throat. 'It's true that a child belongs to its father. But when a father beats… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share
What you must accept is that your life is not going to be the same while you are writing. — Chinua Achebe Copy Share
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