199 Quotes by Wole Soyinka

All religions accept that there is something called 'criminality.' And criminality cannot be excused by religious fervour.

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

Seven is the magic figure, because that's a symbolic figure of my favorite deity, Ogun.

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.

Sadness is twilight's kiss on earth.

The writer is the visionary of his people... He anticipates, he warns.

Some of us – poets are not exactly poets. We live sometimes – beyond the word.

I like my peace and quiet whenever I can grab it.

Each time I think Ive created time for myself, along comes a throwback to disrupt my private space.