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Thursday, 3 April 2025

The Write Advice 215: CHINUA ACHEBE

 

…I think writing is such a serious thing that one ought to take it fairly easily and slowly, you know, at its own pace.  I don't like forcing a story.  Some days, weeks even, I can't write anything, and I don't want to go to the table and start scribbling, you see, I feel it's—it is an important thing and ought to be taken seriously.

 

Radio interview 1962 

[Reprinted in African Writers Talking: A Collection of Radio Interviews (1972)]

 

 

 

 

 

Use the link below to read about the life and work of Nigerian novelist CHINUA ACHEBE [1930–2013]:



https://www.thoughtco.com/chinua-achebe-biography-4176505

 

 

 

 

 

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