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I have no immediate plan to read a new book because I am seriously engaged in writing someone else’s story.

— Zaynab Alkali

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Education opens doors and gives an individual option in life.

If you want to be a good writer, write what you deeply feel you should write, not what you feel the audience will like.

Writing in Nigeria is not a job, because it never pays.

My stories are triggered by drama of life.

The character of Ezeulu, the chief priest in Arrow of God, by Chinua Achebe is one of my favourite characters.

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

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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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