Wole soyinka

I take friendship very seriously.

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

I have a kind of magnetic attraction to situations of violence.

For me, justice is the prime condition of humanity.

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

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

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

I love beauty. But I like the beauty accidentally, not dished up, served up on a platter.

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

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.