Top 47 Quotes by Ben Okri

The fact of storytelling hints at a fundamental human unease, hints at human imperfection. Where there is perfection there is no story to tell.

Home can be the friend you have been searching for all your life or the person you met once very briefly.

If you are working in an office, where do you find the time to write a novel? But you can finish a short story in five pages. Furthermore, a short story is a perfect place to learn the craft.

I began my writing life as a poet, so poetry has always been fundamental. I evolved from poetry to journalism to stories to novels. But poetry was always there.

Politics is the art of the possible; creativity is the art of the impossible.

Artists and writers have to deal with the element that makes the real real and the dream real while you are dreaming it. That's where stories and poems get their power.

Reading is an act of civilization; it's one of the greatest acts of civilization because it takes the free raw material of the mind and builds castles of possibilities.

I went to London because, for me, it was the home of literature. I went there because of Dickens and Shakespeare.

To sustain your belief through situations that completely undermine it is quite something.

To anyone who is homeless, I say, find a home.