Nigerian - Writer | November 16, 1930 - March 21, 2013
They have not always elected the best leaders, particularly after a long period in which they have not used this facility of free election. You tend to lose the habit.
Chinua Achebe
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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 world.
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I think back to the old people I knew when I was growing up, and they always seemed larger than life.
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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 automatically because the characters are now pulling the story.
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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 different from prescribing a way in which a writer should write.
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I'm a practised writer now. But when I began, I had no idea what this was going to be. I just knew that there was something inside me that wanted me to tell who I was, and that would have come out even if I didn't want it.
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People create stories create people; or rather stories create people create stories.
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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 own experience.
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When old people speak it is not because of the sweetness of words in our mouths; it is because we see something which you do not see.
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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 the surface it's far removed from your situation.
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Presidents do not go off on leave without telling the country.
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I don't care about age very much.
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