Don't read what everyone else is reading. Check them out later, cautiously.

Destiny plans a different route and fulfills the dream in ways we couldn't have expected.

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

The earliest storytellers were magi, seers, bards, griots, shamans. They were, it would seem, old as time, and as terrifying to gaze upon as the mysteries with which they wrestled .. (they) helped the community live though one more darkness, with eyes wide open, and with hearts set alight.

This earth that we live on is full of stories in the same way that, for a fish, the ocean is full of ocean. Some people say when we are born we're born into stories. I say we're also born from stories.

I was told stories, we were all told stories as kids in Nigeria. We had to tell stories that would keep one another interested, and you weren't allowed to tell stories that everybody else knew. You had to dream up new ones.

Without stories we would go mad. Life would lose its moorings or lose its orientations. even in silence we are living our stories