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
What I teach is literary criticism and comparative literature and so on and that's my function, but from time to time it's… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
Art is solace; art is vision, and when I pick up a literary work, I am a consumer of literature for its… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
I believe that prizes are useful things for the disciplines, whether we are talking about chemistry or we're talking... It motivates, it,… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
Writers throughout the ages have one weapon, which is literature, but they also have their responsibilities as a citizen when literature does… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
Books and all forms of writing have always been objects of terror to those who seek to suppress the truth. — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
In European and American society, many pundits started to lament the death of literature; looking at youth who were getting more and… — 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
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
Books and all forms of writing are terror to those who wish to suppress the truth. — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
Don't feel that you have to tailor your literature a particular way to please any school of ideology. There will emerge in… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
Of course I've enjoyed having the Nobel Prize, the prestige that goes along with it, the money that came with it in… — 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
In the world of literature, I see prizes as more of a duty to the craft itself, rather than as something for… — 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 Image
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 Image
Each time I think I've created time for myself, along comes a throwback to disrupt my private space. — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
