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Toni Kan Quotes

born 1971

Toni Kan (born Anthony Kan Onwordi; 11 June 1971) is a Nigerian writer, editor, public relations executive, and teacher. He is the author of Nights of the Creaking Bed, The Carnivorous City, Ballad of Rage, and several poetry collections.

Random Toni Kan quote

7 quotes

"I think the person is mad, because every human being changes every day, and the city changes faster than that."

"My biggest motivation for writing is to make people cry."

"I wanted a situation where the book could be used as a map to walk through the city of Lagos."

"I always feel like writing stories. That's what I do for a living and it doesn't matter what genre."

"Life is my biggest inspiration, followed by Lagos, which is my garden of ideas. I would atrophy as a writer if I left Lagos. The city is one huge, seething cesspit of stories."

"I am a compulsive reader... if I am not reading a novel on my phone, I am reading an article on politics or literature or other books."

"The place you see in the morning is not the place you see every night—it could be a den of robbers at night. That's what I am trying to capture in the book—to show the many facets that make up Lagos."

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Toni Kan (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.