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. Chinua Achebe Read Quote
Oh, the most important thing about myself is that my life has been full of changes. Therefore, when I observe the world, I don’t expect to see it just like I was seeing the fellow who lives in the next room. Chinua Achebe Read Quote
I liked Yeats! That wild Irishman. I really loved his love of language, his flow. His chaotic ideas seemed to me just the right thing for a poet. Passion! He was always on the right side. He may be wrongheaded, but his heart was always on the right side. He wrote beautiful poetry. Chinua Achebe Read Quote
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. Chinua Achebe Read Quote
I tell my students, it’s not difficult to identify with somebody like yourself, somebody next door who looks like you. What’s more difficult is to identify with someone you don’t see, who’s very far away, who’s a different color, who eats a different kind of food. When you begin to do that then literature is really performing its wonders. Chinua Achebe Read Quote
One of the truest tests of integrity is its blunt refusal to be compromised. Chinua Achebe Read Quote
When suffering knocks at your door and you say there is no seat for him, he tells you not to worry because he has brought his own stool. Chinua Achebe Read Quote
Art is man’s constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to him. Chinua Achebe Read Quote
