A Writing Quote From Ben Okri
“A people are as happy and confident as the stories they tell themselves. Sick storytellers can make nations sick. Stories can conquer fear and make the heart larger.”
~ Ben Okri
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Ben Okri is a contemporary novelist and poet, who won the Booker Prize (UK) in 1991 for The Famished Road and the Premio Palmi (Italy) in 2000 for Dangerous Love.