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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Nigeria has had a complicated colonial history. My work has examined that part of our story extensively. — 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
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
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 Image
“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 Image
My son even if you want to fall, at least fall where your bones can be gathered — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
“And so Mr. Brown came to be respected even by the clan, because he trod softly on its faith.” — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
“I have learned that a man who makes trouble for others is also making it for himself.” — 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 began to… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
When there is a big tree small ones climb on its back to reach the sun. — 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 my essays,… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
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 Image
