I am not fighting for success, just to get more beauty out of myself and share it with more people. – Ben Okri
Stories can conquer fear, you know. They can make the heart bigger. – Ben Okri
I am not fighting for success, just to get more beauty out of myself and share it with more people. – Ben Okri
Stories can conquer fear, you know. They can make the heart bigger. – Ben Okri
Im conscious of a series of circles working its way through my life. And at this particular moment I have come round to the beginning of my writing cycle. It begins with poetry. Theres hardly a day that goes past on which I dont write poetry. – Ben Okri
I was born left-handed, but I was made to use my other hand. When I was writing Famished Road, which was very long, I got repetitive stress syndrome. My right wrist collapsed, so I started using my left hand. The prose I wrote with my left hand came out denser, so later on I had to change it. – Ben Okri
When I was young, I had two older sisters, and since I was the youngest in my family, my mom took me around with her all the time. I was forever with her when she was having coffee in the middle of the afternoon with her three sisters. And they would talk about men. I absorbed a lot of that. – Richard LaGravenese