My father used to tell me stories before I fell asleep. When the children would gather, at a certain point, I had a tendency to make up my own elementary variations on stories I had heard, or to invent totally new ones.
Source: In My Soul Looks Back, 'Less I Forget, by Dorothy Winbush Riley, 1995.
-- Wole Soyinka, (Jul 13 1934-____), Nigerian playwright, novelist, critic; He wrote of W. Africa satirically with a tragic sense of obstacles to human progress; first African, first black to win the Nobel Prize Lit., 1986.