It has always been quite apparent to me that no important story can fail to tell us something of value to us.

Each of my books is different. Deliberately... I wanted to create my society, my people, in their fullness.

Procrastination is a lazy man's apology.

I do not think that there need be the conflict between books and videos, that one would drive out the other. It certainly is possible to watch the screen for some things and for others to sit down and read, because the screen is easier to do, to watch is easier than to read because you don't have to contemplate anything. Someone else has done the work of putting it on the video.

The lizard that jumped from a high Iroko tree to the ground said he would praise himself if no-one else did.

The whole idea of a stereotype is to simplify. Instead of going through the problem of all this great diversity - that it's this or maybe that - you have just one large statement; it is this.

There is no story that is not true, [...] The world has no end, and what is good among one people is an abomination with others.