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Quotes from Travelers — Helon Habila

born 1967 Nigeria

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11 quotes

"Like most people I am simply exhausted by politics."

Travelers (2019)

"The African novel is a hybrid form. It is a combination of the African folkloric tradition with the western novel form."

Travelers (2019)

"It is not about prizes, it is about the work."

Travelers (2019)

"I don't see myself as a spokesperson for Africa. I am simply a writer trying to write about people and about themes that interest me."

Travelers (2019)

"Writing is a very lonely business, so a prize sort of shows one that one is not working in a vacuum."

Travelers (2019)

Happiness is important, but I wouldn't say it is the main purpose of human existence.

Travelers (2019)

"There is a tendency, especially in the West, to look at African writing as all about war and famine and refugees. But literature is supposed to show you life in a more balanced way."

Travelers (2019)

There is no loneliness like the loneliness of a stranger in a strange city.

Travelers (2019)

Sometimes poets have to be imperfect so their poetry can be perfect.

Travelers (2019)

Not all of us have that luxury, of a past. My history doesn't offer me much in that respect.

Travelers (2019)

Our story is over, the ink has dried, each of us must move on now and it will be as if we had never met, never loved, and never dreamt together.

Travelers (2019)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Helon Habila (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.