I don't really consider myself a novelist, it just came out purely by accident. — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
The writer is the visionary of his people... He anticipates, he warns. — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
Writers - human. I shudder to think how I must sometimes appear to others. — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
Writing in certain environments carries with it an occupational risk. — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
No writer has a right to make that much money. Indeed, without diabolical assistance, no writer can. — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
For me, a writer is already being the deuce of his mission, his occupation to society. — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
Writers are human. I shudder to think how I must sometimes appear to others. — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
Very conscious of the fact that an effort was being made to destroy my mind, because I was deprived of books, deprived… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
I'm not one of those writers I learned about who get up in the morning, put a piece of paper in their… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
Before you're a writer, you're a citizen, a human being, and therefore the weapons of the citizen are at your disposal to… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
The problem with literature, with writing, is that it works sometimes in terms of correction of social ills. Other times, it just… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
I think most writers would like a quiet space, complete isolation, in which they control their own time. Spaces of creativity in… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
Writers who open up horizons for other people are performing a function every bit as important as a consciously politicized writer. — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
I think I'm a very lazy writer and by that I mean that I do not battle, I don't struggle too hard… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
I know there are writers who get up every morning and sit by their typewriter or word processor or pad of paper… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
As you get drawn more and more into other activities, like political activities, very demanding, you have to find different rhythms of… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
There is something really horrific for any human being who feels he is being consumed by other people. I'm talking about a… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
I know there are other writers who sit down religiously every morning, they take their espresso, they put a clean sheet of… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
The novel, for me, was an accident. I really don't consider myself a novelist. — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
I consider the process of gestation just as important as when you're actually sitting down putting words to the paper. — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
The idea of having to make constant reference to politics is anathema to my calling as a writer. — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
The problem with literature, with writing, is that it works sometimes in terms of correction of social ills. Other times, it just… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
Writers and intellectuals have a duty to humanity. It is to insist that the human entity remains the primary asset in overall development; thus,… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share
When I tried to create a new political party, which I stressed that this is not my party. I believe very much that there… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share
Each time I think I've created time for myself, along comes a throwback to disrupt my private space. — Wole Soyinka Copy Share
I began writing early - very, very early... I was already writing short stories for the radio and selling poems to poetry and art… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share
My horizon on humanity is enlarged by reading the writers of poems, seeing a painting, listening to some music, some opera, which has nothing… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share
Under a dictatorship, a nation ceases to exist. All that remains is a fiefdom, a planet of slaves regimented by aliens from outer-space. — Wole Soyinka Copy Share
The phenomenon of creativity, we know, is closely related to the ability to yoke together separate, and even seemingly incompatible, matrices. — Wole Soyinka Copy Share
One, a mass movement from within, which, as you know, is constantly being put down brutally but which, again, regroups and moves forward as… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share
We wasted a lot of creative energy in that immediate post colonial era, when there was a struggle between, you know, the Cold War… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share
The Egba kingdom was one of the very last to be ceded to the British protectorate. It remained almost an independent entity within what… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share
One's own self-worth is tied to the worth of the community to which one belongs, which is intimately connected to humanity in general. What… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share
I was born into a Christian household, in a parsonage in fact, so I grew up in sort of a missionary atmosphere but it… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share
The problem with literature, with writing, is that it works sometimes in terms of correction of social ills. Other times, it just does not… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share
