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
I think once you have done all you can to a manuscript, let it find its way in the world. — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
I think back to the old people I knew when I was growing up, and they always seemed larger than life. — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
In dealing with a man who thinks you are a fool, it is good sometimes to remind him that you know what… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
If you ask me, Now, is it your best book? I would say, I don't really know. I wouldn't even want to… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
There is a moral obligation, I think, not to ally oneself with power against the powerless. — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
I think Africa is slowly learning - and painfully - that importance of insisting on responsible leadership. It will come eventually, and… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
When I think of the standing, the importance and the erudition of all these people who see nothing about racism in Heart… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
I did not think of writing as a career and I don't think that I did this ever really, but I think… — 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
You don't ever want to say to a young person, You can't, or, You are no good. Some people might be able… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
If you were to loose the habit of making the effort to get the book and read the words one by one… — 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
My books have done extremely well, I know. But I don't honestly feel much different from when I began to write. I… — 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
Those who are talking sharia in Nigeria are really just politicians exploiting what they think is available. But if it should turn… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
What really worries me is that those who are in positions of power are not really affected by what we are writing.… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
I do not think that there is any time in our history when things were perfect. I do not expect such times… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
Naming is like putting a stamp on something and fixing it. A kind of formaldehyde sort of fixation, but it becomes dead,… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
I do not think that there need be the conflict between books and videos, that one would drive out the other. It… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
Unoka went into an inner room and soon returned with a small wooden disc containing a kola nut, some alligator pepper and… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
Just think of the work you've set yourself to do, and do it as well as you can. — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
Become familiar with your home, but know also about your neighbors. The young man who never went anywhere thinks his mother is… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
I think an artist, in my definition of that word, would not be someone who takes sides with the emperor against his… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
I'm amazed when I think about students today. They know from day one what they are going to be. We didn't. We… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
I think dialects should be left alone. People should write in whatever dialect they feel they want to write. In the fullness… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
I think not just Nigeria but I think the whole of Africa has to turn back to the rural areas and that's… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
It is not quite true to say that I am not an advocate of writing in African languages. What I think is,… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
I think the language that we use in dealing with one another is very important. And even if I am called upon… — 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
Mosquito [...] had asked Ear to marry him, whereupon Ear fell on the floor in uncontrollable laughter. "How much longer do you… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
Joseph Conrad was a thoroughgoing racist. That this simple truth is glossed over in criticisms of his work is due to the… — 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
What has happened to Africa is very severe. We are talking about the collapse of this and the collapse of that, of… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
I think that is one of the first things that I got clear in my mind when I began to play around… — 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
“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
![“Mosquito [...] had asked Ear to marry him, whereupon Ear fell on the floor in uncontrollable laughter. "How much longer do you think you will live?" she asked. "You are already a skeleton." Mosquito went away humiliated, and any time he passed her way he told Ear that he was still alive.” quote by Chinua Achebe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/8d3/chinua-achebe-781_alive_mosquito-had-asked-ear-to-marry-him-wher_2395639.jpg)
