Career Quote by Wole Soyinka Download Open image “For me, a writer is already being the deuce of his mission, his occupation to society.” — Wole Soyinka ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.8 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Career Deuces Goals Missions Occupation Writing
For me, a writer should be more like a lighthouse keeper, just out there by himself. He shouldn't get his ideas from other people… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
To me, a writer is one of the most important soldiers in the fight for survival of the human race. He must stay at… — Leon Uris Copy Share Image
If there is a category of human being for whom his work ought to speak for itself, it is the writer. — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
“Quite often, too, a writer who has for a time been believed to possess a great store of ordinarily profound ideas, and who is… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
Any writer will be happy and good only if they know what they're doing and why they're doing it. — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
My only job is to write in such a way that the reader gets a new handle on humanity. — Thomas Steinbeck Copy Share Image
I'd like, each time out as a writer, to reinvent who I am and what I'm doing. That's one of the great pleasures and… — Richard Powers Copy Share Image
Any writer worth the name is always getting into one thing or getting out of another thing. — Fannie Hurst Copy Share Image
Every author in some way portrays himself in his works, even if it be against his will. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
A lot of the job that one has to do as a writer is to protect the thing that doesn't match the world. — Kay Ryan Copy Share Image
Never forget that the truest luxury is imagination, and that being a writer gives you the leeway to exploit all of the imagination's curious… — Andrew Solomon 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
“Don’t allow anyone to pressure you into taking a job in a field that doesn’t feel right in your gut. You are the one… — Alison James Copy Share Image
In every province, the chief occupations, in order of importance, are lovemaking, malicious gossip, and talking nonsense. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
I think I've had the longest career of strength, focus, and still being able to sell records. I think I'm that guy. I'm still… — Nas Copy Share Image
One needs more than ambition and talent to make a success of anything, really. There must be love and a vocation. — Jessye Norman Copy Share Image
There are so many things you can do with your life, you can go to school and study toward your career, you can become… — Simphiwe Scientist Dumi Copy Share Image
I always knew I wanted to have a good career, so I made it happen. — Chord Overstreet Copy Share Image
I am a very big fan of Brian Eno, of his work as an artist and making his music, and as a producer. In… — Rostam Batmanglij Copy Share Image
If I can beat a proven champion like Canelo, that will take my career to a different level. — Gennady Golovkin Copy Share Image
My non-career. My excuse for a career? Honestly, I never think about the word 'career.' I've had managers, the minute they say it to… — Tom Verlaine Copy Share Image
I started off as a model maker, so the first part of my career was a model maker and then a motion control camera… — John Knoll Copy Share Image
Growing up I did commercials and things like that, but nothing serious. As I got older, my family is really hardcore into academics. They… — Portia Doubleday Copy Share Image
