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 reflected in it. -Ben Okri

 

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 reflected in it.


-Ben Okri
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This quote is just one of 8 total Ben Okri quotes in our collection. Ben Okri is known for saying '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 reflected in it.' as well as some of the following quotes.

Magic becomes art when it has nothing to hide.

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Politics is the art of the possible; creativity is the art of the impossible.

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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. The fact of possessing imagination means that everything can be re dreamed. Each reality can have it. -Ben Okri
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The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering.

Ben Okri
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The magician and the politician have much in common: they both have to draw our attention away from what they are really doing.

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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 reflected in it. -Ben Okri
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Stories can conquer fear, you know. They can make the heart bigger.

Ben Okri
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