A writer uses a pen instead of a scalpel or blow torch. Michael Ondaatje Canadian Author More Michael Ondaatje Quotes 0
As a writer, one is busy with archaeology. Michael Ondaatje Canadian Author More Michael Ondaatje Quotes 0
I don't have a plan for a story when I sit down to write. I would get quite bored carrying it out. Michael Ondaatje Canadian Author More Michael Ondaatje Quotes 0
I don't see novels ending with any real sense of closure. Michael Ondaatje Canadian Author More Michael Ondaatje Quotes 0
I see the poem or the novel ending with an open door. Michael Ondaatje Canadian Author More Michael Ondaatje Quotes 0
I tend not to know what the plot is or the story is or even the theme. Those things come later, for me. Michael Ondaatje Canadian Author More Michael Ondaatje Quotes 0
I'm a Canadian citizen. But I always want to feel at home in Sri Lanka. I'm a member of both countries. Michael Ondaatje Canadian Author More Michael Ondaatje Quotes 0
In the book the relationship with Katharine and Almasy is sort of only in the patient's mind. Michael Ondaatje Canadian Author More Michael Ondaatje Quotes 0
It doubles your perception, to write from the point of view of someone you're not. Michael Ondaatje Canadian Author More Michael Ondaatje Quotes 0
It's a discovery of a story when I write a book, a case of inching ahead on each page and discovering what's beyond in the darkness, beyond where you're writing. Michael Ondaatje Canadian Author More Michael Ondaatje Quotes 0
It's a responsibility of the writer to get the reader out of the story somehow. Michael Ondaatje Canadian Author More Michael Ondaatje Quotes 0
It's an odd state to be in, blowing the whistle on your home country. Michael Ondaatje Canadian Author More Michael Ondaatje Quotes 0
It's why you create characters: so you can argue with yourself. Michael Ondaatje Canadian Author More Michael Ondaatje Quotes 0
Once I've discovered the story, I might restructure it, maybe move things around, set up a clue that something is going to happen later, but that happens much later in an editorial capacity. Michael Ondaatje Canadian Author More Michael Ondaatje Quotes 0
Research can be a big clunker. It's difficult to know how you can make the historical light. Michael Ondaatje Canadian Author More Michael Ondaatje Quotes 0
Right now, I have no idea what I will write or if I will write again. Michael Ondaatje Canadian Author More Michael Ondaatje Quotes 0
That's Anil's path. She grows up in Sri Lanka, goes and gets educated abroad, and through fate or chance gets brought back by the Human Rights Commission to investigate war crimes. Michael Ondaatje Canadian Author More Michael Ondaatje Quotes 0
The first sentence of every novel should be: Trust me, this will take time but there is order here, very faint, very human. Meander if you want to get to town. Michael Ondaatje Canadian Author More Michael Ondaatje Quotes 0
The last three books are much more a case of a moment of history, what happened almost by accident or coincidence, like being in the same elevator or lifeboat. Michael Ondaatje Canadian Author More Michael Ondaatje Quotes 0
The past is still, for us, a place that is not safely settled. Michael Ondaatje Canadian Author More Michael Ondaatje Quotes 0
To write about someone like myself would be very limiting. Michael Ondaatje Canadian Author More Michael Ondaatje Quotes 0
Truth, at the wrong time, can be dangerous. Michael Ondaatje Canadian Author More Michael Ondaatje Quotes 0
You don't want to write your own opinion, you don't want to just represent yourself, but represent yourself through someone else. Michael Ondaatje Canadian Author More Michael Ondaatje Quotes 0
You want to suggest something new, but at the same time, resolve the drama of the action in the novel. Michael Ondaatje Canadian Author More Michael Ondaatje Quotes 0