"The challenge is always to write characters who are believable, even when readers disagree with them." Everything Good Will Come (2005)
"Lagos is endlessly fascinating because it is always changing, yet somehow it remains the same city." Everything Good Will Come (2005)
"Memory is unreliable, but fiction allows us to search for emotional truths beyond facts." Everything Good Will Come (2005)
"I don't write to represent Nigeria. I write stories about people whose lives happen to unfold there." Everything Good Will Come (2005)
"I don't think writers have a duty to provide solutions. Our duty is to ask questions and to tell the truth as we see it." Everything Good Will Come (2005)
"Every novel teaches me something different about writing. I don't approach any book believing I already know how to write it." Everything Good Will Come (2005)
"Humour is one of the ways people survive difficult circumstances, and I try not to lose sight of that in my fiction." Everything Good Will Come (2005)