“I'm conscious of a series of circles working its way through my life. ...” — Ben Okri Quote

I'm conscious of a series of circles working its way through my life. And at this particular moment I have come round to the beginning of my writing cycle. It begins with poetry. There's hardly a day that goes past on which I don't write poetry.

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.

The greatest religions convert the world through stories.

I became a sceptic of one way of seeing the world. And I think it is what started me in my awareness that any worldview is superstitious.

I went to London because, for me, it was the home of literature. I went there because of Dickens and Shakespeare.

It graduates to 'our state is better than your state', and 'our nation is better than your nation.' And it circles all the way around to where it started: 'Our God is better than your God.'

In Japan, I am famous in certain special circles - mainly as someone who is trying to break down and enlighten the conventions of Japanese art.

Me and Drake, we just met each other in passing on the road. We kicked it a few times. We kept ending up in the same circles. Eventually we figured out we wanted to work.

I don't want to promote my own image either. I don't like going on television or mixing in literary circles.