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

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

"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."

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

Francis Bacon Meditationes sacræ (1597)

Strength of creative writing lies in the skill of handling words and articulating artistic expression of feelings.”

Suman Pokhrel

The free-lance writer is a man who is paid per piece or per word or perhaps.

Robert Benchley

Three sleepless nights I passed in sounding on,
Through words and things, a dim and perilous way.

William Wordsworth Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed (1919)

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