A Quote by Chinua Achebe

Writers don't give prescriptions. They give headaches!

Chinua Achebe

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Give Headaches Prescriptions Writers

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Chinua Achebe
Nigerian - Novelist
November 16, 1930 - March 21, 2013

You think too much.' 'I suppose I do; but I can’t help it, my mind is so terribly active. When I give myself, I give myself. I pay the penalty in my headaches, my famous headaches--a perfect circlet of pain! But I carry it as a queen carries her crown.

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