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
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
I believe that each writer must decide in which language he or she is most comfortable. — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
Writing in certain environments carries with it an occupational risk. — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
Writers are human. I shudder to think how I must sometimes appear to others. — 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
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
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
An idyllic period of my existence was when I had a den attached to my home... a writing den, and no one… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
There is not a special imposition on writers to be activists. All that does is encourage writers to write propaganda. Propaganda can… — 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
Writers and intellectuals have a duty to humanity. It is to insist that the human entity remains the primary asset in overall… — 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 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
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
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
We wasted a lot of creative energy in that immediate post colonial era, when there was a struggle between, you know, the… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
The very function of creativity, of the elaboration of the human condition only enlarges the human spirit and, I mean, as 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
I began writing early - very, very early... I was already writing short stories for the radio and selling poems to poetry… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
I do not believe that it is necessarily the duty of the writer to give a voice to his community. If a… — 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
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
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
My horizon on humanity is enlarged by reading the writers of poems, seeing a painting, listening to some music, some opera, which… — 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
Books and all forms of writing are terror to those who wish to suppress the truth. — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
There is not a special imposition on writers to be activists. All that does is encourage writers to write propaganda. — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
Even when I'm writing plays I enjoy having company and mentally I think of that company as the company I'm writing for. — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
My mind immediately shot to South Africa the moment I sat down to think what I was going to write, what I… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
I've always written plays for the purpose of getting something out of my system. — 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
For many playwrights, they write the plays anyway because they've got to be, the work has been started, it's got to be… — 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
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
