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"The World Bank places Nigeria at the top of the list as the largest economy on the continent with a GDP of $375bn, compared to South Africa which has a GDP of $348bn."
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"I started out life as a writer, and writers write in part because they don't want to talk."
Gloria Steinem

"The writer of originality, unless dead, is always shocking, scandalous; novelty disturbs and repels."
Simone de Beauvoir

"Forever is composed of nows."
Emily Dickinson

"I write out of gratitude for all the books I have loved over the years."
Kevin Brockmeier

"Fear is a question. What are you afraid of and why? Our fears are a treasure house of self-knowledge if we explore them."
Marilyn French

"Writing is making sense of life. You work your whole life and perhaps you've made sense of one small area."
Nadine Gordimer

"Sarcasm: the last refuge of modest and chaste-souled people when the privacy of their soul is coarsely and intrusively invaded."
Fyodor Dostoevsky

"I think one of the keys to better writing is releasing all of your ideas and to not be afraid. Dream big. This could be the greatest novel in the world you know."
Adora Svitak

"Tell me what you read and I'll tell you who you are is true enough, but I'd know you better if you told me what you reread."
Francois Mauriac

"A person is a fool to become a writer. His only compensation is absolute freedom."
Roald Dahl

"I learned the enormous power of writing for yourself, especially now that people seem to be receptive to the fact that women can write."
Maya Rudolph

"Each reader needs to bring his or her own mind and heart to the text."
Dean Koontz

"A discipline I have observed is an attitude of love and reverence to people."
Bessie Head

"All human beings are also dream beings. Dreaming ties all mankind together."
Jack Kerouac

"Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work."
Stephen King

"I am a part of everything that I have read."
Theodore Roosevelt

"Style and structure are the essence of a book; great ideas are hogwash."
Vladimir Nabokov

"Productivity is being able to do things that you were never able to do before."
Franz Kafka

"Nobody can take what I love away from me. I would like to believe that love is the only energy I've ever used as a writer. I've never written out of anger, although anger has informed love."
Athol Fugard

"Art is man's constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to him."
Chinua Achebe

"Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures."
F. Scott Fitzgerald

"A discipline I have observed is an attitude of love and reverence to people."
Bessie Head

"Creativity is very selfish. Scandalously so, in fact."
Athol Fugard

"Truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is."
Nadine Gordimer

"I guess, taking away all the theatrics or the costuming and the outer layers of what I do, I'm a writer... I write."
David Bowie

"People create stories create people or rather stories create people create stories."
Chinua Achebe


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