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I grew up in an atmosphere where words were an integral part of culture.

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I think that feeling that if one believed absolutely in any cause, then one must have the confidence, the self-certainty, to go through with that particular course of action.

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I'm 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 I've never understood.

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One thing I can tell you is this, that I am not a methodical writer.

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See, even despite pious statements to the contrary, much of the industrialized world has not yet come to terms with the recognition of the fallacy of what I call the strong man syndrome.

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The novel, for me, was an accident. I really don't consider myself a novelist.

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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.

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

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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.

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Biography

Nationality: Nigerian

Type: Dramatist

Born: July 13th, 1934

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