# Quote — Ben Okri, The Age of Magic

> "When I was about three years old... I realised that words could move the power in a room."

- Author: [Ben Okri](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ben-okri.md)
- Book: [The Age of Magic](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ben-okri/the-age-of-magic.md)
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Ben_Okri#The_Age_of_Magic_(2014)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/ben-okri/the-age-of-magic/when-i-was

## More from this book

> "A writer's task is not merely to describe the world but to deepen our way of seeing it."

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ben-okri/the-age-of-magic/a-writers-task.md)

> "Writing is a way of paying attention to life."

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ben-okri/the-age-of-magic/writing-is-a-way.md)

> What if by sheer repetition we become the person we most often pretend to be? Does that mean there is no authentic self? Are we made of habits, compressed by time, like layered rocks?

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ben-okri/the-age-of-magic/what-if-by-sheer.md)