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“To me, being an intellectual doesn't mean knowing about intellectual issues; it means taking pleasure in them.”

'CHINUA ACHEBE'

I write from real life. I am an unrepentant eavesdropper and a collector of stories. I record bits of overheard dialogue.

'CHIMAMANDA NGOZI ADICHIE'

"Maybe there are only three kinds of stories: those we live, those we tell, and those that help our souls fly upwards to a greater life."

'BEN OKRI'

“I believe it is important to speak to your readers in person... to enable people to have a whole picture of me; I have to both write and speak. I view my role as writer and also as oral communicator.”

'BUCHI EMECHETA'

“I don't write because there's an audience. I write because there is literature..”

'SUSAN SONTANG'

“Good writing is supposed to evoke sensation in the reader - not the fact that it is raining, but the feeling of being rained upon.”

'E. L. DOCTOROW'

“Wherever I am, if I've got a book with me, I have a place I can go and be happy”

'J. K. ROWLING'

“Good writing can be defined as having something to say and saying it well. When one has nothing to say, one should remain silent. Silence is always beautiful at such times.”

'EDWARD ABBEY'

“Books and all forms of writing are terror to those who wish to suppress the truth.”

'WOLE SOYINKA'

“If you want to know a country, read its writers.” 

'AMINATTA FORNA'

"I'm more trying to connect; I'm more listening to people. Whatever I get is very meaningful to me."

'NGUGI WA THIONG'O'

“I am building a stairway to the stars. I have the authority to take the whole of mankind up there with me. That is why I write.”

'BESSIE HEAD'

“Telling a story in a futuristic world gives you this freedom to explore things that bother you in contemporary times.”

'SUZANNE COLLINS'

"Not all books are for all people. We read for different reasons."

'GEORGE R. R. MARTIN'

“Ingenuity requires creativity”

'VERONICA ROTH'

“The truth hurts, but silence kills.”

'MARK TWAIN'.