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.
Quotes From: Wole Soyinka
Wole Soyinka ⇒
And I believe that the best learning process of any kind of craft is just to look at the work of others.
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Books and all forms of writing are terror to those who wish to suppress the truth.
Wole Soyinka ⇒
But the ultimate lesson is just sit down and write. That’s all.
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But theater, because of its nature, both text, images, multimedia effects, has a wider base of communication with an audience. That’s why I call it the most social of the various art forms.
Wole Soyinka ⇒
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.
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Even when I’m writing plays I enjoy having company and mentally I think of that company as the company I’m writing for.
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I consider the process of gestation just as important as when you’re actually sitting down putting words to the paper.
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I don’t really consider myself a novelist, it just came out purely by accident.
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I found, when I left, that there were others who felt the same way. We’d meet, they’d come and seek me out, we’d talk about the future. And I found that their depression and pessimism was every bit as acute as mine.