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Writing in Nigeria is not a job, because it never pays.

— Zaynab Alkali

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Education opens doors and gives an individual option in life.

If you want to be a good writer, write what you deeply feel you should write, not what you feel the audience will like.

My stories are triggered by drama of life.

The character of Ezeulu, the chief priest in Arrow of God, by Chinua Achebe is one of my favourite characters.

My library is next door to my home office for easy access, and it is arranged in an order of priority.

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The free-lance writer is a man who is paid per piece or per word or perhaps.

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Three sleepless nights I passed in sounding on,
Through words and things, a dim and perilous way.

William Wordsworth Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed (1919)

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