Mythology can be used, and has been used, even to re-state, you know, the very urgent problems of the world.
WOLE SOYINKAAnd I believe that the best learning process of any kind of craft is just to look at the work of others.
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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 was involved in school plays; I wrote essays, so there was no definite moment when I said, ‘Now I’m a writer.’ I’ve always been a writer.
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The greatest threat to freedom is the absence of criticism.
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My understanding of the creative process is simply that all cultures and all concerns meet at a certain point, the human point in which everything is related to one another. That has been my creative experience.
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We all have our individual artistic temperaments as well as partisanships in creative directions. And we have strong opinions on the merits of the products of our occupation.
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But the ultimate lesson is just sit down and write. That’s all.
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And I believe that the best learning process of any kind of craft is just to look at the work of others.
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Governance can dig itself into a huge hole and not even know it’s in there.
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There’s a lot of insincerity about the actions of our legislators; they create distractions – like this anti-gay law you alluded to – and try to mobilise, to exacerbate people’s emotions. Until the legislators started making laws, people minded, generally, their own business.
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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 write. I don’t function that way. I go through a long period of gestation before I’m even ready to write.
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I am a very curious person; I’ll always ask: is this thing true, is it not true? And I use my own means to investigate and come to my conclusion.
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Writers are human. I shudder to think how I must sometimes appear to others.
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There is something really horrific for any human being who feels he is being consumed by other people.
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I believe that each writer must decide in which language he or she is most comfortable.
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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 of writing, deprived of human companionship. You never know how much you need it until you’re deprived of it.
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Be yourself. Ultimately just be yourself.
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