Quotes by : Ben Okri

The highest kind of writing—which must not be confused withthe most ambitious kind…belongs to the....

The higher the artist, the fewer the gestures. The fewer the tools, the greater the imagination. The....

Reading, therefore, is a co-production between writer and reader. The simplicity of this tool is astounding.....

A people are as healthy and confident as the stories they tell themselves. Sick storytellers can make....

The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to....

I noticed that in a corner, across from where they ate with such innocent relish, sitting forlorn and....

He thought about how the camera makes one fall in love with an image of oneself, and perpetuates a false....

This earth that we live on is full of stories in the same way that, for a fish, the ocean is full of....

A people are as healthy and confident as the stories they tell themselves. Sick storytellers can make....

The intelligence that shaped the universe, shaped you. There is an inner part of us, for ever obscured,....