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Writing Quotes by Wole Soyinka
- But the ultimate lesson is just sit down and write. That's all.
- I consider the process of gestation just as important as when you're actually sitting down putting words to the paper.
- I began writing early - very, very early... I was already writing short stories for the radio and selling poems to poetry and art festivals;…
- I know there are writers who get up every morning and sit by their typewriter or word processor or pad of paper and wait to…
- Even when I'm writing plays I enjoy having company and mentally I think of that company as the company I'm writing for.
- Books and all forms of writing are terror to those who wish to suppress the truth.
- Very conscious of the fact that an effort was being made to destroy my mind, because I was deprived of books, deprived of any means…
- I'm not one of those writers I learned about who get up in the morning, put a piece of paper in their typewriter machine and…
- An idyllic period of my existence was when I had a den attached to my home... a writing den, and no one had access to…
- Books and all forms of writing have always been objects of terror to those who seek to suppress the truth.
- The problem with literature, with writing, is that it works sometimes in terms of correction of social ills. Other times, it just does not suffice.
- Writing in certain environments carries with it an occupational risk.
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- I grew up in a working-class family, so I guess you could say I write from what I know. — Andrea Arnold
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