Inspirational Quotes, Motivational Sayings, and Wise Words for Daily Inspiration

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Writing is like wrestling; you are wrestling with ideas and with the story. There is a lot of energy required. At the same time, it is exciting. So it is both difficult and easy. What you must accept is that your life is not going to be the same while you are writing. I have said in the kind of exaggerated manner of writers and prophets that writing, for me, is like receiving a term of imprisonment-you know that's what you're in for, for whatever time it takes.

Chinua Achebe's Popular Quotes

A man of worth never gets up to unsay what he said yesterday.

- Chinua Achebe

Nobody can teach me who I am. You can describe parts of me, but who I am - and what I need - is something I have to find out myself.

- Chinua Achebe

There is nothing to fear from someone who shouts.

- Chinua Achebe

People say that if you find water rising up to your ankle, that's the time to do something about it, not when it's around your neck.

- Chinua Achebe

We cannot trample upon the humanity of others without devaluing our own. The Igbo, always practical, put it concretely in their proverb Onye ji onye …

- Chinua Achebe

The white man is very clever. He came quietly and peaceably with his religion. We were amused at his foolishness and allowed him to stay. Now he has …

- Chinua Achebe

Become familiar with your home, but know also about your neighbors. The young man who never went anywhere thinks his mother is the greatest cook.

- Chinua Achebe

There is that great proverb — that until the lions have their own historians, the history of the hunt will always glorify the hunter.

- Chinua Achebe

If you only hear one side of the story, you have no understanding at all.

- Chinua Achebe