The worst realities of our age are manufactured realities. It is therefore our task, as creative participants in the universe, to re dream our world.….

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 re….

a dream can be the highest point of a life.

Creativity is the art of the impossible.

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..

Reading, therefore, is a co-production between writer and reader. The simplicity of this tool is astounding. So little, yet out of it whole worlds, e….

The acknowledged legislators of the world take the world as given. They dislike mysteries, for mysteries cannot be coded, or legislated, and wonder c….

One of the greatest gifts my father gave me - unintentionally - was witnessing the courage with which he bore adversity..

The Nigerian storyteller Ben Okri says that ‘In a fractured age, when cynicism is god, here is a possible heresy: we live by stories, we also live in….

There ought to be three traditions in the art of humanity: the realistic, the visionary and the wild..

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..

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 st….

A man must be able to hold his drink because drunkenness is sometimes necessary in this difficult life..

People are as healthy and confident as the stories they tell themselves..

We disliked the rigours of existence, the unfulfilled longings, the enshrined injustices of the world, the labyrinths of love, the ignorance of paren….

The earliest storytellers were magi, seers, bards, griots, shamans. They were, it would seem, old as time, and as terrifying to gaze upon as the mys….

In the beginning there was a river. The river became a road and the road branched out to the whole world. And because the road was once a river it wa….

It may be that what you could be haunts you. It is real. It is a weight you have to carry around. Each failure to become, to be, is a weight. Each st….

We can redream this world and make the dream come real. Human beings are gods hidden from themselves..

I was told stories, we were all told stories as kids in Nigeria. We had to tell stories that would keep one another interested, and you weren't allow….