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
But when youre deprived of it for a lengthy period then you value human companionship. But you have to survive and so you devise all kinds of mental exercises and its amazing. – Wole Soyinka
Well, the first thing is that truth and power for me form an antithesis, an antagonism, which will hardly ever be resolved. I can define in fact, can simplify the history of human society, the evolution of human society, as a contest between power and freedom. – Wole Soyinka
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