Books Quote by Chinua Achebe Download Open image “I teach literature. That's easy for me. Take someone else's work and talk about it.” — Chinua Achebe ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.2 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books Easy Education Literature Teach
What I teach is literary criticism and comparative literature and so on and that's my function, but from time to time it's possible for… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
I do lots of reading and speaking at many universities about literature and also about politics, which is as much a part of my… — Grace Paley Copy Share Image
I am especially indebted to a 10th grade English teacher who encouraged me to read great works of literature. — Samuel Alito Copy Share Image
When I began to be published, people got the idea that I should 'teach writing,' which I have no idea how to do and… — Anne Carson Copy Share Image
If you can't really have a conversation with someone candidly about it it's something that you'll always have something to learn from when it… — Elizabeth Olsen Copy Share Image
My teaching forces me to articulate what I think works in a piece of fiction and how I think it works. All of that… — Dana Spiotta Copy Share Image
Teaching is all armchair. I learn about writing by writing and thinking about what I've written and throwing it away. — Ben Marcus Copy Share Image
What does literature do for me? I think I solve problems in my writing. They may be my problems, but perhaps others share them,… — Sabina Murray Copy Share Image
On top of whatever else I'm doing, I'm usually teaching some form of composition. The benefit of this is I get to read across… — Gregory Pardlo Copy Share Image
Because I don't have to be careful of people's feelings when I teach literature, and I do when I'm teaching writing. — Tobias Wolff Copy Share Image
Literature is breathing. I teach literature the way someone else might teach First Aid. — Gustavo Perez Firmat 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
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.' — Lydia Lunch Copy Share Image
My sentences got sharper and my stories more efficient, and I gradually learned to imagine the reader more clearly and to empathize with that… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
“Within the pages of books, I've journeyed to Mandalay, the Milky Way and Santa Fe, without once having to leave my armchair.” — Kevin Ansbro Copy Share Image
“Tacitus did not write a most dangerous book. His readers made it so.” — Christopher K. Krebs Copy Share Image
“Take some books and read; that’s an immense help; and books are always good company if you have the right sort.” — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
