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" My understanding of the creative process is simply that all cultures and all concerns meet at a certain point, the human point in which everything is related to one another. That has been my creative experience. I never know who's influencing me at any time. "

Wole Soyinka

Process

Time

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" I am a glutton for tranquility. "

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Tranquility

I Am

" Military dictatorship, you can focus on it, you can fight it directly. It's a band of power-driven people. "

" And gradually they're beginning to recognize the fact that there's nothing more secure than a democratic, accountable, and participatory form of government. But it's sunk in only theoretically, it has not yet sunk in completely in practical terms. "

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Government

" I consider the process of gestation just as important as when you're actually sitting down putting words to the paper. "

" Power is domination, control, and therefore a very selective form of truth which is a lie. "

" 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. "

" Probably to me the greatest singer, female voice, is Billie Holiday. And one of the most moving for me, I don't know why - maybe it's nostalgia, maybe because my life is one of constant partying, whatever. "

" But when you're 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 it's amazing. "

" I take friendship very seriously. "

" But the ultimate lesson is just sit down and write. That's all. "

" Those nations that say it's a crime to preach your religion are making a terrible mistake. All they're doing is driving underground other forms of spiritual intuitions and practices. "

" There is something really horrific for any human being who feels he is being consumed by other people. I'm talking about a writer's critics, who don't address what you've written, but want to probe into your existence and magnify the trivia of your life without any sense of humor, without any sense of context. "

" Human life has meaning only to that degree and as long as it is lived in the service of humanity. "

" There's something about the theater which makes my fingertips tingle. "

" Books and all forms of writing have always been objects of terror to those who seek to suppress the truth. "

" There's no way to escape the culture that has evolved, from which we ourselves have evolved. Naturally, we stress it, break it up, reassemble it to suit our own needs. But it is there - a source of vital strength. "

" Education is lacking in most of those who pontificate. "

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

" I don't really consider myself a novelist, it just came out purely by accident. "