Niyi Osundare famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

One hasn't become a writer until one has distilled writing into a habit, and that habit has been forced into an obsession. Writing has to be an obsession. It has to be something as organic, physiological and psychological as speaking or sleeping or eating.
-- Niyi Osundare

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Whatever you do today you've got to sleep with tonight.
On eyes that watch as well as eyes that weep Descends the solemn mystery of sleep, Toiling and climbing to the very close, The weary Body, longing for repose, On the gained level of the day's ascent, Halts for the night and pitches there its tent.
They think my life is glamourous. It's not true. I obviously get to come in and do radio interviews. That's the glamour. But other than that, I eat and sleep and that's it. Eat, sleep and do shows.
The most difficult and complicated part of the writing process is the beginning.
Because of a friend, life is a little stronger, fuller, more gracious thing for the friend's existence, whether he be near or far. If the friend is close at hand, that is best; but if he is far away he still is there to think of, to wonder about, to hear from, to write to, to share life and experience with, to serve, to honor, to admire, to love.
Back in the days when American billboard advertising was in flower [said Hemingway], there were two slogans that I always rated above all others: the old Cremo Cigar ad that proclaimed, Spit Is a Horrid Word-but Worse on the end of Your Cigar, and Drink Schlitz in Brown Bottles and Avoid that Skunk Taste. You don't get creative writing like that any more.
Nature, not content with denying him the ability to think, has endowed him with the ability to write.
The primary requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite.
I've been obsessed with this kind of visual storytelling for quite a while, and I try to create material that allows me to explore it.
All women who kill or have sexual obsessions or who are prostitutes have trouble with their fathers.

Niyi Osundare famous quotes

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