“Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice.”

“There is an art of reading, as well as an art of thinking, and an art of writing.”

“There is an art of reading, as well as an art of thinking,and an art of writing.”

“Mine is not an obedient writing. I think that literature as any art has to be irreverent.”

“I like to write literature that reads like pulp fiction.”

“In this country [England], writers write to entertain, they raise questions of individual existence...but for a Nigerian writer in my position you can't go into that. Literature has to be combative. You cannot have art for art's sake. This art must do something to transform the lives of a community, of a nation. And for that reason, literature has a different purpose altogether in that sort of society...The stories that I tell must have a different sort of purpose from the artist in the Western world...and art, in that instance, becomes so meaningful both to the artist and to the consumers of that art, because you do not just depend on them to read your books, you even have to live a life that they can emulate.”