410 Quotes by Chinua Achebe

This is why I find racism impossible, because this is against humanity.

When Rimbaud became a slave trader, he stopped writing poetry.

Poetry and slave trading cannot be bedfellows. That's where I stand.

I have found that I work best when I am at home in Nigeria. But one learns to work in other places.

I am not an early-morning person; I don't like to get out of bed, and so I don't begin writing at five A.M., though some people, I hear, do. I write once my day has started. And I can work late into the night, also.

I'm very primitive; I write with a pen.

Once you have really done all you can, then you can show it to people. But I find this is increasingly not the case with the younger people. They do a first draft and want somebody to finish it off for them with good advice.

If someone said, I want to translate your novel into Igbo, I would say, Go ahead. But when I write in the Igbo language, I write my own dialect. I write some poetry in that dialect.

Real tragedy is never resolved. It goes on hopelessly for ever.