Adewale Joel

“Poetry is not all about good phrases and rhyme schemes, poetry is about poetry.”
― Adewale Joel

“When an editor works with an author, she cannot help seeing into the medicine cabinet of his soul. All the terrible emotions, the desire for vindications, the paranoia, and the projection are bottled in there, along with all the excesses of envy, desire for revenge, all the hypochondriacal responses, rituals, defenses, and the twin obsessions with sex and money. It other words, the stuff of great books.”
― Betsy Lerner, The Forest for the Trees

“A writer’s voice is the distinct fashion peculiar to a writer in which he pieces together words.”
― Adewale Joel, Learn Creative Writing: A guide to writing perfect drafts

“the voice is simply the emotions and thoughts of the writer
expressed through the eyes of the character, his behavior, thoughts, actions, dialogues and affectations.”
― Adewale Joel, Learn Creative Writing: A guide to writing perfect drafts