Why I prefer wine to water — Wole Soyinka

Nigerian Nobel laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, has explained that he avoids drinking water as much as possible and prefers wine instead. 

The 90-year-old made this known during a recent interview with CNN’s Larry Madowo.

According to him, water merely takes up space without providing the necessary inspiration and satisfaction, adding that wine is what works wonders for him.

When asked why he swapped the water offered to him for wine during the interview, he said, “Water just takes up space unnecessarily and you know and it belongs to other commodities. So, I am not keen on water. I avoid water as much as possible. 

“A good, robust wine either sends you to sleep right away or inspires you to work. You never know which way it (wine) will work.”

The literary icon also shared how he finds inspiration to write, noting that his best ideas usually come when he is in isolation.

“I get my best ideas in isolation. And that isolation includes even being on a plane where nobody is talking to me. My space is total isolation.”

On how he keeps up with the ever-evolving technological landscape, he remarked, “You don’t attempt to be up to date with everything. Because after a while, it gets too much.

“And the next thing, you have a machine which talks, and it talks back to you. I said shut up I am the one doing the writing, and then it’s attempting to correct me, what type of nonsense is that?”

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