Theres a kind of dynamic quality about theater and that dynamic quality expresses itself in relation to, first of all, the environment in which its being staged then the audience, the nature of the audience, the quality of the audience. – Wole Soyinka
Books and all forms of writing are terror to those who wish to suppress the truth. – Wole Soyinka
My horizon on humanity is enlarged by reading the writers of poems, seeing a painting, listening to some music, some opera, which has nothing at all to do with a volatile human condition or struggle or whatever. It enriches me as a human being. – Wole Soyinka
Im 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 Ive never understood. – Wole Soyinka