#om

Comedy, drama, Westerns, sci-fi... it's all fine if the story's compelling and the character is interesting to me. I do like action a lot. ↗

— Jensen Ackles

#character #comedy #compelling #drama #fine

The career of a writer is comparable to that of a woman of easy virtue. You write first for pleasure, later for the pleasure of others and finally for money. ↗

— Marcel Achard

#comparable #easy #finally #first #later

The damage done in one year can sometimes take ten or twenty years to repair. ↗

— Chinua Achebe

#done #repair #sometimes #take #ten

When old people speak it is not because of the sweetness of words in our mouths; it is because we see something which you do not see. ↗

— Chinua Achebe

#mouths #old #old people #our #people

Democracy is not something you put away for ten years, and then in the 11th year you wake up and start practicing again. We have to begin to learn to rule ourselves again. ↗

— Chinua Achebe

#away #begin #democracy #learn #ourselves

Once a novel gets going and I know it is viable, I don't then worry about plot or themes. These things will come in almost automatically because the characters are now pulling the story. ↗

— Chinua Achebe

#almost #automatically #because #characters #come

In fact, I thought that Christianity was very a good and a very valuable thing for us. But after a while, I began to feel that the story that I was told about this religion wasn't perhaps completely whole, that something was left out. ↗

— Chinua Achebe

#after #began #christianity #completely #fact

Nigeria has had a complicated colonial history. My work has examined that part of our story extensively. ↗

— Chinua Achebe

#complicated #examined #extensively #had #history

When the British came to Ibo land, for instance, at the beginning of the 20th century, and defeated the men in pitched battles in different places, and set up their administrations, the men surrendered. And it was the women who led the first revolt. ↗

— Chinua Achebe

#battles #beginning #british #came #century

Always remember that the future comes one day at a time. ↗

— Dean Acheson

#always #comes #day #future #one day