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“It is so amazing how many people are always waiting for you to screw up just so they can have the privilege of saying to you those four words of astounding wisdom - "I told You so”
― Rotimi Ogunjobi

“I think a good life will be like a great game of cricket. You need to go out there on the pitch and try to score as many glorious runs as possible within the inning. Undoubtedly challenges will try to bowl you out as quickly as possible perhaps even in your first over; undoubtedly there will be opponents crouched behind and lurking all around the pitch waiting to catch you out.But take some chances anyway; don't stay forever behind your crease , blocking and protecting your wicket. Hit some astounding sixes , steal some dangerous runs.”
― Rotimi Ogunjobi

“Far too many people tend to think that they have the right to have anything and everything in the world. Never be afraid to stand up to them and take them some steps down the ladder ; you will be doing their life a good deed.”
― Rotimi Ogunjobi

“I'd rather see a sermon than hear one any day; I'd rather one should walk with me than merely show the way. I'd rather be a role mode than an instructor.”
― Rotimi Ogunjobi

“Keep your secrets to yourself. Remember, your closest confidant also has a closest confidant who also has a closest confidant.”
― Rotimi Ogunjobi

“There is no such person as a self-made man or woman. There is nothing you have that has not been Given to you. That you have more than those around simply means you have been Selectively blessed .Therefore love the less fortunate; don't despise them. It is simply by grace that you are different.”
― Rotimi Ogunjobi

“Failure is really never such a bad thing, especially if you do things that other people are afraid to do.”
― Rotimi Ogunjobi

“You cannot go out fighting an immoral war and expect to have peace at home.”
― Rotimi Ogunjobi

“Any fiction writer who has never had his work misunderstood couldn't have written a lot. Somehow along the way you are going to run into people who will take a knowledgeable look at a character in your story and thereafter become able to make that fictional person, you. The story of that character becomes your life; the attitudes and proclivities become your character, and soon your real self is fighting for assertion. Don't take it personal though. The truth is that most people don't know how to read fiction. Most people just don't have the imagination to understand that fiction exists. They are the realists of our world. They are the people who provide that important measure of sanity to counterweight the controlled insanity of creative people. They are the ones who keep this world from toppling over. Learn to love them.”
― Rotimi Ogunjobi

“I am never going to win a literary prize. There is no point trying anymore. I stopped trying long ago. I am too undisciplined a writer to be trusted with trophies. It would have been great to win one really; and to see my face slapped on tabloids all over the world; and to have my books measured out for sale in the shops by feet and yards instead of sold in measly single copies.
But I guess I write in ways that should infuriate literary judges, critics and a good percentage of the literary community . In fairness to those guys; it must be very hard to give marks for a piece of writing that reads like no other contestant . Better to play safe instead and stamp it worthless in foot-high letters; and afterward debate a decree that future contestants be forced to undergo compulsory sanity tests.”
― Rotimi Ogunjobi

“The kind of writers I hate the most are those that are completely bereft of distinguishing colors,and so gladly troop out with sundry mediocres in queues of dismal greys- bearing dry gristle for the mental mill of those that that are not permitted to know the difference.”
― Rotimi Ogunjobi

“I have a confession to make. When I was a kid in junior secondary school I was a closet poet, getting high on Lord Tennyson; thumbing my nose and writing sonnets to the impending downfall of the established educational system and its superficial strictures.”
― Rotimi Ogunjobi

“Indeed I do belong to that dreadful class of persons known as the reclusive writer – the existential writer. For the existential writer as you probably already do know, life is never about whether to write but whether he can survive without writing. As a matter of fact not being able to do any writing at all would be such a painful life. He must write or simply perish.”
― Rotimi Ogunjobi

“What makes an author write under a different name ? Well, some may actually be criminals on the run, looking to make a bit of money within their tough fly-by-night schedule. Some may be ashamed of what they have written and loathe to be publicly linked to it.Some having become lost in their world of make-believe may have actually forgotten whom they are and probably decided that any name was as good as another. I think though that there may be as many reasons for this as there are authors who practise this sinister act.”
― Rotimi Ogunjobi

“Dreams are free, and that is probably why they never come true, anyway”
― Rotimi Ogunjobi, Two Dogs

“Now if I had the habit of giving away free money to animals how did I become rich? And if I do not remain rich how would I be considered able to give away free money?”
― Rotimi Ogunjobi, Two Dogs

“Nothing like a good dose of hunger to bring out the philosopher in anyone”
― Rotimi Ogunjobi, Two Dogs