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Stories Quotes by Chinua Achebe
- In fact, I thought that Christianity was very a good and a very valuable thing for us. But after a while, I began to feel…
- Once a novel gets going and I know it is viable, I don't then worry about plot or themes. These things will come in almost…
- People create stories create people; or rather stories create people create stories.
- When I began going to school and learned to read, I encountered stories of other people and other lands.
- Once you allow yourself to identify with the people in a story, then you might begin to see yourself in that story even if on…
- People from different parts of the world can respond to the same story if it says something to them about their own history and their…
- Stories serve the purpose of consolidating whatever gains people or their leaders have made or imagine they have made in their existing journey thorough the…
- 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. When they get…
- 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 like.
- We have heard stories about white men who make the powerful guns and the strong drinks and took slaves away across the seas, but no…
- I believe in the complexity of the human story, and that there's no way you can tell that story in one way and say, 'this…
- The story of this man who had killed a messenger and hanged himself would make interesting reading. One could almost write a whole chapter on…
- Nigeria has had a complicated colonial history. My work has examined that part of our story extensively.
- If you don't like someone's story, write your own.
- It is only the story...that saves our progeny from blundering like blind beggars into the spikes of the cactus fence.The story is our escort;without it,we…
- It is the story that owns and directs us. It is the thing that makes us different from cattle; it is the mark on the…
- There is no story that is not true, [...] The world has no end, and what is good among one people is an abomination with…
- What I can say is that it was clear to many of us that an indigenous African literary renaissance was overdue. A major objective was…
- Writing has always been a serious business for me. I felt it was a moral obligation. A major concern of the time was the absence…
- There is no story that is not true.
- Some people flinch when you talk about art in the context of the needs of society thinking you are introducing something far too common for…
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- In fact, I thought that Christianity was very a good and a very valuable thing for us. But after a while, I… — Chinua Achebe