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

– Ben Okri

Ben Okri

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.

– Ben Okri

Ben Okri

I am one year older than Nigeria at 51. In a human life, 51 might be old. But it is very young for a nation. By that, I mean a Nigeria conscious of itself as a nation.

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Ben Okri

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

– Ben Okri

Ben Okri

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

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Ben Okri

When I write a poem, I go into a state of self-forgetfulness, and something higher takes over; I like to call it my best self.

– Ben Okri

Ben Okri

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.

– Ben Okri

Ben Okri

The poem is never complete in the mind. It emerges, and then it’s like an act of unveiling. The unveiling is the longest and most difficult part of it.

– Ben Okri

Ben Okri

I study people all the time. For some reason, we’re not very good at seeing what’s there or hearing what we’re hearing.

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Ben Okri

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.

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Ben Okri

The worst time was 1983. Love and life and everything went wrong. I reached absolute rock bottom. I saw the Minotaur at the bottom of the abyss. I learnt of the harshness of the world and its impartiality to human failure.

– Ben Okri

Ben Okri

I believe in leavening. You can’t have words sticking out too much, like promontories. They disturb the density. You have to flatten them, or raise the surrounding terrain.

– Ben Okri

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