Ben Okri Quotes & Sayings (Page 4)

Ben Okri quotes and sayings page 4 (poet). Here's quote # 31 through 40 out of the 48 we have.

“I became a sceptic of one way of seeing the world. And I think it is what started me in my awareness that any worldview is superstitious.”

“Stories can conquer fear, you know. They can make the heart bigger.”

“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.”

“Some of my reactions are very Nigerian. I still believe that words are things.”

“The greatest religions convert the world through stories.”

“Fire is one of my temperaments. It is behind all my work... Fire is a chemical presence.”

“You cannot come to a Nigerian restaurant without having pepper soup.”

“Reading, like writing, is a creative act. If readers only bring a narrow range of themselves to the book, then they'll only see their narrow range reflected in it.”

“The higher the artist, the fewer the gestures. The fewer the tools, the greater the imagination. The greater the will, the greater the secret failure.”

“'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner' had a formative effect on me. I think it's one of those works that if you encounter it very early you're doubly enchanted by the beauty of the language and the strangeness of the vision. It stays with you.”