The best writing is not about the writer, the best writing is absolutely not about the writer, it’s about us, it’s about the reader.
BEN OKRIDon’t read what everyone else is reading. Check them out later, cautiously.
More Ben Okri Quotes
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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 an absolute reality.
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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, who can walk a silver line in hell or madness.
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This earth that we live on is full of stories in the same way that, for a fish, the ocean is full of ocean. Some people say when we are born we’re born into stories. I say we’re also born from stories.
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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.
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If we could be pure dancers in spirit we would never be afraid to love, and we would love with strength and wisdom.
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Creativity is the art of the impossible
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To anyone who is homeless, I say, find a home.
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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 your grief to the fullest.
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Maybe there are only three kinds of stories: those we live, those we tell, and those that help our souls fly upwards to a greater life.
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The law is simple. Every experience is repeated or suffered till you experience it properly and fully the first time.
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One of the greatest gifts my father gave me – unintentionally – was witnessing the courage with which he bore adversity.
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Don’t read what everyone else is reading. Check them out later, cautiously.
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Without stories we would go mad. Life would lose its moorings or lose its orientations. even in silence we are living our stories
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Only those who truly love and who are truly strong can sustain their lives as a dream. You dwell in your own enchantment.
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We have not yet arrived, but every point at which we stop requires a re-definition of our destination.
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