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Michael Ondaatje

  • A writer uses a pen instead of a scalpel or blow torch.
    Michael Ondaatje
  • As a writer, one is busy with archaeology.
    Michael Ondaatje
  • 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
  • I don't see novels ending with any real sense of closure.
    Michael Ondaatje
  • I see the poem or the novel ending with an open door.
    Michael Ondaatje
  • 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
  • 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
  • In the book the relationship with Katharine and Almasy is sort of only in the patient's mind.
    Michael Ondaatje
  • It doubles your perception, to write from the point of view of someone you're not.
    Michael Ondaatje
  • 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
  • It's a responsibility of the writer to get the reader out of the story somehow.
    Michael Ondaatje
  • It's an odd state to be in, blowing the whistle on your home country.
    Michael Ondaatje
  • It's why you create characters: so you can argue with yourself.
    Michael Ondaatje
  • 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
  • Research can be a big clunker. It's difficult to know how you can make the historical light.
    Michael Ondaatje
  • Right now, I have no idea what I will write or if I will write again.
    Michael Ondaatje
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • The past is still, for us, a place that is not safely settled.
    Michael Ondaatje

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