705 quotes by nigerian authors for you to enjoy

To be transported into another world is my very favourite part of reading. Ayobami Adebayo

World Reading Favourite Part Another Very

I used to think that most published writers, the ones I admired, had a muse, or a special connection to the universe, to nature, or to aliens - something inaccessible to me that caused their prose to flow onto the page, already perfect. Ayobami Adebayo

I think there is a dissonance between how much is expected of you as a young person, whether you are a man or a woman: you are supposed to go to university; you get a master's degree, maybe two, particularly if you come from the middle class. Ayobami Adebayo

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You cannot come to a Nigerian restaurant without having pepper soup. Ben Okri

You Restaurant Pepper Having Come Without Soup Cannot Nigerian

Reading, like writing, is a creative act. If readers only bring a narrow range of themselves to the book, then they'll only see their narrow range reflected in it. Ben Okri

Creative Book Writing Reading Range See Only Like Readers Narrow Reflected Themselves Then Act Creative Act Bring

Stories can conquer fear, you know. They can make the heart bigger. Ben Okri

You Heart Fear Know Make Stories Bigger Conquer

I was born left-handed, but I was made to use my other hand. When I was writing 'Famished Road,' which was very long, I got repetitive stress syndrome. My right wrist collapsed, so I started using my left hand. The prose I wrote with my left hand came out denser, so later on I had to change it. Ben Okri

Change Writing Stress Made Long Other Syndrome Later Collapsed Out Born Wrist Had Road Prose Wrote Got Came Hand Left Left-Handed Repetitive Very Which Use Using Right Started

The worst time was 1983. Love and life and everything went wrong. I reached absolute rock bottom. I saw the Minotaur at the bottom of the abyss. I learnt of the harshness of the world and its impartiality to human failure. Ben Okri

Life Love Time Failure World Abyss Everything Saw Worst Harshness Impartiality Absolute Bottom Wrong Reached Rock Learnt Human

I was going to be a scientist. Ben Okri

Scientist Going

I went to London because, for me, it was the home of literature. I went there because of Dickens and Shakespeare. Ben Okri

Home Me London Shakespeare Because Dickens Literature

The greatest religions convert the world through stories. Ben Okri

World Religions Through Greatest Stories Convert

I know that human beings are capable of anything. Ben Okri

Know Human Human Beings Anything Capable Beings

The best writing is not about the writer, the best writing is absolutely not about the writer, it's about us, it's about the reader. Ben Okri

Best Writing About Absolutely Writer Absolutely Not Reader Us

I'm conscious of a series of circles working its way through my life. And at this particular moment I have come round to the beginning of my writing cycle. It begins with poetry. There's hardly a day that goes past on which I don't write poetry. Ben Okri

Life Day Writing My Life Past Beginning Circles Way Poetry Through Write Particular Come Begins Goes Which Working Cycle Moment Series Round Conscious Hardly

'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner' had a formative effect on me. I think it's one of those works that if you encounter it very early you're doubly enchanted by the beauty of the language and the strangeness of the vision. It stays with you. Ben Okri

Me You Vision Language Beauty Think Those Ancient Stays Had Enchanted Encounter Effect Very Formative Doubly Strangeness Works Early

At the heart of 'The Famished Road' is a philosophical conundrum - for me, an essential one: what is reality? Everybody's reality is subjective; it's conditioned by upbringing, ideas, temperament, religion, what's happened to you. Ben Okri

Religion Me You Heart Reality Everybody Philosophical Temperament Road Ideas Conditioned Subjective Upbringing Essential Happened

Some of my reactions are very Nigerian. I still believe that words are things. Ben Okri

Words Believe Some Reactions Still Very Things Nigerian

Actually, I'm for football. But I'm for intelligent football that enhances us rather than football that steals away who we are. Bennet Omalu

Rather Steals Football Intelligent Than Us Who Enhances Away Actually

Chronic means long term. Traumatic means associated with trauma. Encephalopathy means a bad brain. Bennet Omalu

Long Chronic Bad Long-Term Term Brain Means Trauma Traumatic Associated

There is no safe blow to the head, especially for a child. Bennet Omalu

Head Safe Child Blow

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