Chinua Achebe Quotes

When a coward sees a man he can beat he becomes hungry for a fight.

One reason why I am quite angry with what is happening in Nigeria today is that everything has collapsed. If I decide to go back now, there will be so many problems – where will I find the physical therapy and other things that I now require?

Africa is to Europe as the picture is to Dorian Gray-a carrier onto whom the master unloads his physical & moral deformities.

There is no story that is not true.

A debt may get mouldy, but it never decays.

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

I don’t like to see mistakes on the typewriter. I like a perfect script. On the typewriter I will sometimes leave a phrase that is not right, not what I want, simply because to change it would be a bit messy.