Quotes from An Orchestra of Minorities — Chigozie Obioma
born 1986 Nigeria
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"What fascinates me most is the mystery of why human beings become who they become."
"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.
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."
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...
Interview on the purpose of fiction
Attribution
Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Chigozie Obioma (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.