Chinua Achebe Quotes

The whole idea of a stereotype is to simplify. Instead of going through the problem of all this great diversity - that it's this or maybe that - you have just one large statement; it is this.

Chinua Achebe

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: nigerian
  • Birth: November 16, 1930 - March 21, 2013

Topics

GreatDiversityProblemYouSimplify

Twenty years on, the books are still fun to write and I've still got lots of stories I want to tell, mainly about social injustice and people chewed up by the system.

John Grisham

FunPeopleInjusticeWantWriteUp

You find that all men are successes or failures. Success is the stamp of truth. I will say all men who fail to place their feet on the dome of facts do so by not sieving all truth and throwing the faulty to one side.

Andrew Taylor Still

SuccessTruthMenFeetFactsYou

Even the greatest poets can't express tragedy in a way that is larger than their immediate circumstances.

Andrei Codrescu

TragedyCircumstancesWayGreatest

A financial crisis is a great time for professional investors and a horrible time for average ones.

Robert Kiyosaki

GreatTimeFinancialProfessional

I got interested in the Vikings, and then you realize that there isn't much to be read about them because they did not write their history. It was written by hostile witnesses, by Christian monks and so on. From what I could see and understand, I was really excited about it. I loved their culture and loved their gods.

Michael Hirst

HistoryCultureLovedChristianYou

In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage.

John Steinbeck

PeopleVintageGrowingGrapesHeavy

All Americans value the freedom of speech and the freedom of the press, and I believe this is essential for our continued way of life. But with this freedom comes responsibility.

Steven Hatfill

LifeFreedomResponsibilityValue

People want more and more leisure time, which means the freedom to do what they want to do, not what they have to do, and as we get richer and richer, more and more people will be able to afford that.

Robert Fogel

FreedomTimePeopleWantWillMore

I don't want to be bored; I don't want to be with someone I don't respect.

Robyn Davidson

RespectSomeoneWantBored

When I turned 35, I thought, 'Mozart was dead at 36, so I set the bar: I'm going to start writing a book on my next birthday.' I thought historical fiction would be easiest because I was a university professor and know my way around a library, and it seemed easier to look things up than make them up.

Diana Gabaldon

BirthdayWritingStartBookLibrary

I get bored if I do the same thing. The only constant that I have in my life is that I start whatever I do with my Total Gym, because I believe it helps keep me from getting injured.

Christie Brinkley

LifeMeStartBelieveMy LifeGym

I was first an indie actor, so I also want that more opportunities be given to people in the indies.

Coco Martin

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