Chigozie Obioma Quotes
born 1986 Nigeria
Chigozie Obioma (born 1986) is a Nigerian writer and assistant professor at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. He is the author of three novels The Fishermen (2015), An Orchestra of Minorities (2019) and The Road to the Country (2024).
- Nigeria
- Academics
- Novelists
Also known as: The Fishermen
23 quotes
"What fascinates me most is the mystery of why human beings become who they become."
I must have my pound of flesh and you must all join me in this because you caused it.
"The novelist's first responsibility is to tell the truth of the story, wherever that truth leads."
"I grew up listening to stories before I ever imagined writing them."
Time is not a living creature that can listen to pleas, nor is it a man who can delay.
For the truth remains that more can also be more, and that less is often inevitably less.
That story, as all good stories, planted a seed in my soul and never left me.
Loneliness is the violent dog that barks interminably through the long night of grief.
"Writing allows me to preserve worlds that are disappearing before our eyes."
M.K.O., you are beautiful beyond description
Even in his most extroverted moment, a man is concealed from others. For he cannot be fully known.
in Umuahia, a town in the land of the great fathers...
Attribution
Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Chigozie Obioma (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.