Very conscious of the fact that an effort was being made to destroy my mind, because I was deprived of books, deprived of any means of writing, deprived of human companionship. You never know how much you need it until you're deprived of it.Wole Soyinka
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Looking at faces of people, one gets the feeling there's a lot of work to be done.
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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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The novel, for me, was an accident. I really don't consider myself a novelist.
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I don't really consider myself a novelist, it just came out purely by accident.
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But the ultimate lesson is just sit down and write. That's all.
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There's a kind of dynamic quality about theater and that dynamic quality expresses itself in relation to, first of all, the environment in which it's being staged; then the audience, the nature of the audience, the quality of the audience.
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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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