# Quote — Ben Okri, Dangerous Love

> If your work can surprise you then you have started something worthwhile.

- Author: [Ben Okri](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ben-okri.md)
- Book: [Dangerous Love](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ben-okri/dangerous-love.md)
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Ben_Okri#Dangerous_Love_(1996)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/ben-okri/dangerous-love/if-your-work

## More from this book

> Quiet people are the most dangerous.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ben-okri/dangerous-love/quiet-people-are.md)

> Our society is a battlefield. Poverty, corruption and hunger are the bullets. Bad governments are the bombs.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ben-okri/dangerous-love/our-society-is-a-battlefield.md)

> So long as a canvas is empty its potential is infinite… The empty canvas can become a gateway into the landscape of nightmares or a vision of sensual bliss.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ben-okri/dangerous-love/so-long-as-a-canvas.md)