Many writers can't make a living. So to be able to teach how to write is valuable to them. But I don't… — 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
If someone said, I want to translate your novel into Igbo, I would say, Go ahead. But when I write in the… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
I am not an early-morning person; I don't like to get out of bed, and so I don't begin writing at five… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
The writer is often faced with two choices--turn away from the reality of life's intimidating complexity or conquer its mystery by battling… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
To the question of writing at all we have sometimes been counselled to forget it, or rather the writing of books. What… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
“Decolonising the Mind, by an important African writer and revolutionary, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o.” — 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
“Most writers who are beginners, if they are honest with themselves, will admit that they are praying for a readership as they… — 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 I write novels in a country in which most citizens are illiterate, who then is my community? — 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
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 wouldn't have wanted anyone to teach me how to write. That's my own taste. I prefer to stumble on it. — 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
Storytellers are a threat. They threaten all champions of control, they frighten usurpers of the right-to-freedom of the human spirit -- in… — 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
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
“This does not in any way close the argument for the development of African languages by the intervention of writers and governments.… — 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
“...Let me say that I do think decency and civilization would insist that the writer take sides with the powerless. Clearly, there's… — 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
