Our stories are different; our pain is the same..

I have seen myself backward..

Forgiveness, which is the place that every story turns, the chance we give each other..

The surest sign of fitness is success..

I have learnt more from my failures than my successes..

I ask myself: is every story that has ever been written in this world, a story of suffering and affliction?.

The greatest religions convert the world through stories..

If you write a hundred short stories and they're all bad, that doesn't mean you've failed. You fail only if you stop writing..

Listen to my story and everything will come out true.

When I practiced, I practiced to get it right..

Where you stop is where you stop. There is always more of God..

You all have the potential to be what you wanna be..

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's nothing wrong with being an agitator..

The something of somewhere is mostly just the nothing of nowhere..

You'd tell the world what your best friend wore to sleep if you thought it made a good enough story..

When we open ourselves you yourself to me and I myself to you, when we submerge you into me and I into you when we vanish into me you and into you I ….

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

Tell the truth and read story books;it will take you to the magical moment in a glory night..

The story and the poem are obviously changed by being placed in the novel, so in a sense they're no longer the works that preceded the novel..

Mother didn't understand that children aren't frightened by stories; that their lives are full of far more frightening things than those contained in….