All Ben Okri Quotes
- Magic becomes art when it has nothing to hide. Art
- To see the madness and yet walk a perfect silver line. ... That's what the true story-teller should be: a great guide, a clear mind,… Clear
- Bad things will happen and good things too. Your life will be full of surprises. Miracles happen only where there has been suffering. So taste… Bad
- Reading, therefore, is a co-production between writer and reader. The simplicity of this tool is astounding. So little, yet out of it whole worlds, eras,… All
- The road will never swallow you. The river of destiny will always overcome evil. May you understand your fate. Suffering will never destroy you, but… Always Overcome
- The Nigerian storyteller Ben Okri says that ‘In a fractured age, when cynicism is god, here is a possible heresy: we live by stories, we… Age
- Destiny plans a different route and fulfills the dream in ways we couldn't have expected. Destiny
- In the beginning there was a river. The river became a road and the road branched out to the whole world. And because the road… Always Hungry
- The worst realities of our age are manufactured realities. It is therefore our task, as creative participants in the universe, to re dream our world.… Age
- I'm fascinated by the mysterious element that runs through our lives. Everyone is looking out of the world through their emotion and history. Nobody has… Absolute
- To poison a nation, poison its stories. A demoralised nation tells demoralised stories to itself. Beware of the storytellers who are not fully conscious of… Application
- Literature doesn't have a country. Shakespeare is an African writer. His Falstaff, for example, is very African in his appetite for life, his largeness of… African
- I was told stories, we were all told stories as kids in Nigeria. We had to tell stories that would keep one another interested, and… All
- Stories are the secret reservoir of values: change the stories individuals and nations live by and tell themselves, and you change the individuals and nations. Change
- Beware of the stories you read or tell; subtly, at night, beneath the waters of consciousness, they are altering your world. Altering
- It is easy to forget how mysterious and mighty stories are. They do their work in silence, invisibly. They work with all the internal materials… All
- Creativity is the art of the impossible Art
- People are as healthy and confident as the stories they tell themselves. Confident
- I am not fighting for success, just to get more beauty out of myself and share it with more people. Beauty
- I know that human beings are capable of anything. Beings
- When you can imagine you begin to create and when you begin to create you realize that you can create a world that you prefer… Begin
- It is not important for me as a writer that you leave a piece of writing of mine with either an agreement or even a… Agreement
- Ghetto-dwellers are the great fantasists. There was an extraordinary vibrancy there, an imaginative life. When you are that poor, all you've got left is your… All
- When chaos is the god of an era, clamorous music is the deity's chief instrument. Chaos
- Yes, the highest things are beyond words. That is probably why all art aspires to the condition of wordlessness. When literature works on you, it… Action