Writer Quotes by Wole Soyinka

No writer has a right to make that much money. Indeed, without diabolical assistance, no writer can.

— Wole Soyinka

For me, a writer is already being the deuce of his mission, his occupation to society.

— Wole Soyinka

One thing I can tell you is this, that I am not a methodical writer.

— Wole Soyinka

Writers are human. I shudder to think how I must sometimes appear to others.

— Wole Soyinka

The novel, for me, was an accident. I really don't consider myself a novelist.

— Wole Soyinka

Writing in certain environments carries with it an occupational risk.

— Wole Soyinka

The idea of having to make constant reference to politics is anathema to my calling as a writer.

— Wole Soyinka

I consider the process of gestation just as important as when you're actually sitting down putting words to the paper.

— Wole Soyinka

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

The problem with literature, with writing, is that it works sometimes in terms of correction of social ills. Other times, it just…

— Wole Soyinka

I know there are writers who get up every morning and sit by their typewriter or word processor or pad of paper…

— Wole Soyinka

The problem with literature, with writing, is that it works sometimes in terms of correction of social ills. Other times, it just…

— Wole Soyinka

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

Very conscious of the fact that an effort was being made to destroy my mind, because I was deprived of books, deprived…

— Wole Soyinka

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

Writers who open up horizons for other people are performing a function every bit as important as a consciously politicized writer.

— Wole Soyinka

I know there are other writers who sit down religiously every morning, they take their espresso, they put a clean sheet of…

— Wole Soyinka

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

As you get drawn more and more into other activities, like political activities, very demanding, you have to find different rhythms of…

— Wole Soyinka

But the ultimate lesson is just sit down and write. That's all.

— Wole Soyinka

Writers - human. I shudder to think how I must sometimes appear to others.

— Wole Soyinka

I don't really consider myself a novelist, it just came out purely by accident.

— Wole Soyinka

The writer is the visionary of his people... He anticipates, he warns.

— Wole Soyinka

I think most writers would like a quiet space, complete isolation, in which they control their own time. Spaces of creativity in…

— Wole Soyinka