I don't really consider myself a novelist, it just came out purely by accident.
— 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.
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.
I consider the process of gestation just as important as when you're actually sitting down putting words to the paper.
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.
And I believe that the best learning process of any kind of craft is just to look at the work of others.
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 the ultimate lesson is just sit down and write. That's all.
