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A blind lover, don't know what I love till I write it out
Michael Ondaatje
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Michael Ondaatje
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: September 12
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There always should be something hanging unfinished before a scene ends so that there's a reason for going to the next scene.
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As someone who writes novels that are often set in other periods of time or other ages or other landscapes, there's a certain element of research I have to do, and often, the more laconic people are, the more interesting they become.
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The music of Gavin Bryars falls under no category. It is mongrel, full of sensuality and wit and is deeply moving. He is one of the few composers who can put slapstick and primal emotion alongside each other. He allows you to witness new wonders in the sounds around you by approaching them from a completely new angle. With a third ear maybe.
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I don't see novels ending with any real sense of closure.
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I want to die on your chest but not yet she wrote sometime in the 13th century of our love
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Over the years, confusing fragments, lost corners of stories, have a clearer meaning when seen in a new light, a different place.
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Sleep is a prison for a boy who has friends to meet.
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A man in a desert can hold absence in his cupped hands knowing it is something more than water. There is a plant whose heart, if one cuts it out is replaced with fluid containing herbal goodness. Every morning one can drink the liquid amount of the missing heart.
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You don't want to write your own opinion, you don't want to just represent yourself, but represent yourself through someone else.
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When I write my novels I don't really have a huge plan beforehand I don't have the whole plot and architecture, so the story is sort of discovered as I write it.
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Tell me, is it possible to love someone who is not as smart as you are? ...But isn't it important for you to think she is smarter than you in order to fall in love? ...Why is that? Because we want to know things, how the pieces fit. Talkers seduce, words direct us into corners. We want more than anything to grow and change. Brave new world.
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I've always loved history and history is collage, it is a juxtaposition of the good and the bad and the strange, and how you place those sentences together changes the whole mood of a history.
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One of the things that happens in novels it's almost like a continual debate with yourself. That's why you're writing the book. It's why you create characters: so you can argue with yourself.
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How does this happen? To fall in love and be disassembled.
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What is interesting and important happens mostly in secret, in places where there is no power.
Michael Ondaatje
Come. We must go deeper with no justice and no jokes.
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
This last night we tear into each other, as if to wound, as if to find the key to everything before morning.
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.
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