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Writing Quotes by Chinua Achebe
- People create stories create people; or rather stories create people create stories.
- I think an artist, in my definition of that word, would not be someone who takes sides with the emperor against his powerless subjects. That's…
- There's no lack of writers writing novels in America, about America. Therefore, it seems to me it would be wasteful for me to add to…
- 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.
- 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…
- If you don't like someone's story, write your own.
- 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…
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- Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. — Hannah Arendt
- Writing makes you feel that there is a reason to go on living. If I couldn't write, I would stop breathing. — Paul Auster
- I started out in life as a poet; I was only writing poetry all through my 20s. It wasn't until I was… — Paul Auster
- I write the paragraph, then I'm crossing out, changing words, trying to improve it. When it seems more or less OK, then… — Paul Auster
- When we were making the law, when we were writing the literature and the mathematics the grandfarthers of Blair and little Bush… — Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
- A professional writer is an amateur who didn't quit. — Richard Bach
- In every song I write, whether it's a love song or a political song or a song about family, the one thing… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- I grew up in a working-class family, so I guess you could say I write from what I know. — Andrea Arnold
- Writing comes more easily if you have something to say. — Sholem Asch
- Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today - but the core… — Isaac Asimov
- If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster. — Isaac Asimov
- Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not. — Isaac Asimov