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

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"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 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."

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Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.

Francis Bacon Meditationes sacræ (1597)

It is not in the books of the Philosophers, but in the religious symbolism of the Ancients, that we must look for the footprints of Science, and re-discover the Mysteries of Knowledge.

Albert Pike Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry (1871)

There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches.

Ray Bradbury Fahrenheit 451 (1953)

People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.

Logan Pearsall Smith Afterthoughts (1931)

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