Chinua Achebe Quotes & Sayings (Page 5)
Chinua Achebe quotes and sayings page 5 (writer). These are the last 9 out of 49 quotes we have.
“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.”
“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.”
“When I began going to school and learned to read, I encountered stories of other people and other lands.”
“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.”
“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 that huge number of people writing here when there are so few people writing about somewhere else.”
“Americans, it seems to me, tend to protect their children from the harshness of life, in their interest.”
“I don't care about age very much.”
“Presidents do not go off on leave without telling the country.”
“Many writers can't make a living. So to be able to teach how to write is valuable to them. But I don't really know about its value to the student. I don't mean it's useless. But I wouldn't have wanted anyone to teach me how to write.”
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