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Buchi Emecheta Quotes

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Few things are as bad as a guilty conscience  (Buchi Emecheta Quotes) The first book I wrote was The Bride Price which was a romantic book, but my husband burnt the book when he saw it. I was the typical African woman, I’d done this privately, I wanted him to look at it, approve it and he said he wouldn’t read it  (Buchi Emecheta Quotes) Being a woman writer, I would be deceiving myself if I said I write completely through the eye of a man. There’s nothing bad in it, but that does not make me a feminist writer. I hate that name. The tag is from the Western world - like we are called the Third World  (Buchi Emecheta Quotes) I usually make sure that my stories are from Africa or my own background so as to highlight the cultural background at the same time as telling the story.  (Buchi Emecheta Quotes) A hungry man is an angry one  (Buchi Emecheta Quotes) I always value my large kitchen because it was better to do everything there, you wash up, you do everything, rather than messing up another room and I pop my typewriter just next to it. So I still write now but I was doing more writing when the children were younger  (Buchi Emecheta Quotes) I believe it is important to speak to your readers in person... to enable people to have a whole picture of me; I have to both write and speak. I view my role as writer and also as oral communicator  (Buchi Emecheta Quotes) I work toward the liberation of women, but I’m not feminist. I’m just a woman  (Buchi Emecheta Quotes) As soon as I finish a book, I sell the paperback rights to different publishers and that’s where I recoup my money  (Buchi Emecheta Quotes)