A budding writer wants to be encouraged.

Let the kite perch and let the eagle perch too – If one says no to the other, let his wing break.

Serious and good art has always existed to help, to serve, humanity. Not to indict.

The only thing we have learnt from experience is that we learn nothing from experience.

In America there is really very little knowledge of the literature of the rest of the world. Of the literature of Latin America, yes, But that's not all that different in inspiration from that of America, or of Europe. One must go further. You don't even have to go too far in terms of geography - you can start with the Native Americans and listen to their poetry.

A budding writer wants to be encouraged.

Unless I'm writing in the Igbo language, I use a language developed elsewhere, which is English. That affects the way I write. It even affects to some extent the stories I write.