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.
Ben Okri
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- Magic becomes art when it has nothing to hide.
- I am not fighting for success, just to get more beauty out of myself and share it with more people.
- Don't despair too much if you see beautiful things destroyed, if you see them perish. Because the best things are always growing in secret.
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- 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.