Chinua Achebe
If you're grabbed by art I think you should do whatever comes best to you. Whether it's a novel or a play or a song, it doesn't matter as much as the fact that you are doing something about the situation.
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"The old English novel is something that the English created, why should I use it?"
"Why not?" is what I say.
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I'm not going to say, "I will not use the English language."
I have no fight with any language.
I will use whatever is useful to me.
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