“Dear Delphine, When you are older I want you to find Chinua Achebe. I want you to read Things Fall Apart. Don't… — Rita Williams-Garcia Copy Share Image
How does the saying go? When two locusts fight, it is always the crow that feasts.' Is that a Luo expression?' I… — Barack Obama 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
Because of writers like Chinua Achebe and Camara Laye … I realized that people like me, girls with skin the color of… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
My books are often shelved around those of Chinua Achebe and Margaret Atwood, or Chimamanda Adichie and Monica Ali. All of this… — Chris Abani Copy Share Image
When I was a child, there were two Nigerian writers in every bookshop: Chinua Achebe and Wole Soyinka. — Ayobami Adebayo Copy Share Image
“The English major is, first of all, a reader. She's got a book pup-tented in front of her nose many hours a… — Mark Edmundson Copy Share Image
“When asked if he had a special feeling for books, critic-turned-filmmaker Francois Truffaut answered, "No. I love them and films equally, but… — Alexis Krasilovsky Copy Share Image
“Our masterpieces are Shakespeare and Jane Austen and griots and Murasaki Shikibu, but they’re also J.K. Rowling and Chuck Palahnuik and Douglas… — Beth Revis Copy Share Image
Whether as living humans or as mythological figures, ancestors have always played an important role in the African popular and literary imagination.… — Uzodinma Iweala Copy Share Image
In the early '90s, when I really started to find my voice, I was reading a lot of books, and I was… — Mos Def Copy Share Image
