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“Poetry is its own medium; it's very different than writing prose. Poetry can talk in an imagistic sense; it has particular ways of catching an environment.”

Way Writing Different Environment Particular Mediums Prose Poetry Is Catching Prose Poetry

Author:Story Musgrave

“But the idea of a man making his living by writing seemed, in that hardy environment, so fantastic that even today I am sometimes myself assailed by a feeling of unreality.”

Men Writing Ideas Sometimes Feelings Today Environment Fantastic Hardy Unreality

Book:The Best of Robert E. Howard Volume 1: Volume 1: The Shadow Kingdom

Source: The Best of Robert E. Howard Volume 1: Volume 1: The Shadow Kingdom

“It seems to me that many writers, by virtue of environments of culture, art and education, slip into writing because of their environments.”

Writing Art Seems Culture Virtue Environment Slips

Book:The Best of Robert E. Howard Volume 1: Volume 1: The Shadow Kingdom

Source: The Best of Robert E. Howard Volume 1: Volume 1: The Shadow Kingdom

“My books have done extremely well, I know. But I don't honestly feel much different from when I began to write. I still think we have a long way to go. I suppose my name means more in Nigeria today than it did five years ago. But I feel the job that literature should do in our community has not even started. It's not yet part of the life of the nation. We are still at the beginning. It's a big beginning, because now we are catching the next generation in the schools. When I was their age, I had nothing to read that had any relevance to my own environment.”

Source: Conversations with Chinua Achebe