I consider the process of gestation just as important as when you’re actually sitting down putting words to the paper.
WOLE SOYINKAHistory teaches us to beware of the excitation of the liberated and the injustices that often accompany their righteous thirst for justice.
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You accept whoever you are interacting with, directly, or indirectly.
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You have the entire gamut of human experience captured in the mythology of the Yoruba. This is what makes the Yoruba mythology a natural source material for me in my creative endeavours.
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Well, some people say I’m pessimistic because I recognize the eternal cycle of evil. All I say is, look at the history of mankind right up to this moment and what do you find?
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Mythology can be used, and has been used, even to re-state, you know, the very urgent problems of the world.
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Looking at faces of people, one gets the feeling there’s a lot of work to be done.
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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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I don’t really consider myself a novelist, it just came out purely by accident.
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I have no money to give to you but I have ideas and organizational capacity.
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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 start writing. That I’ve never understood.
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When you are looking for corruption, you should look at the entire stratum of the society, while some forms of corruption are direct, others are indirect.
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What I teach is literary criticism and comparative literature and so on and that’s my function, but from time to time it’s possible for me actually to help a writer. I read something and something strikes me then, I feel I can talk to that writer about it.
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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 do not ask the mountain’s aid to crack a walnut.
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A human feast is an indifferent morsel to a god.
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It’s the place to begin, always — to return to home, literally.
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