Wole Soyinka Thinking Quotations

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

I think that feeling that if one believed absolutely in any cause, then one must have the confidence, the self-certainty, to go through with that particular course of action.

Let's say there are prospects for a new Nigeria, but I don't think we have a new Nigeria yet.

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

Writers are human. I shudder to think how I must sometimes appear to others.

Well, I think the Yoruba gods are truthful. Truthful in the sense that i consider religion and the construct of deities simply an extension of human qualities taken, if you like, to the nth degree. i mistrust gods who become so separated from humanity that enormous crimes can be committed in their names. i prefer gods who can be brought down to earth and judged, if you like.