199 Quotes by Wole Soyinka

No writer has a right to make that much money. Indeed, without diabolical assistance, no writer can.

A tiger does not proclaim his tigritude, he pounces.

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.

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.

There’s a kind of dynamic quality about theater and that dynamic quality expresses itself in relation to, first of all, the environment in which it’s being staged; then the audience, the nature of the audience, the quality of the audience.

You cannot live a normal existence if you haven’t taken care of a problem that affects your life and affects the lives of others, values that you hold which in fact define your very existence.

Even when I’m writing plays I enjoy having company and mentally I think of that company as the company I’m writing for.

Suddenly the world has run amok and left you alone and sane behind.

There are different kinds of artists and very often, I’ll be very frank with you, I wish I were a different kind.