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Research can be a big clunker. It's difficult to know how you can make the historical light.
Michael Ondaatje
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Michael Ondaatje
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: September 12
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I don't have a plan for a story when I sit down to write. I would get quite bored carrying it out.
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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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He walked out of the hospital into the sun, into open air for the first time in months, out of the green-lit rooms that lay like glass in his mind. He stood there breathing everything in, the hurry of everyone. First, he thought, I need shoes with rubber on the bottom. I need gelato.
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Before the real city could be seen it had to be imagined, the way rumours and tall tales were a kind of charting.
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For echo is the soul of the voice exciting itself in hollow places.
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The joyful will stoop with sorrow, and when you have gone to the earth I will let my hair grow long for your sake, I will wander through the wilderness in the skin of a lion
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It's a responsibility of the writer to get the reader out of the story somehow.
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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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Some events take a lifetime to reveal their damage and influence.
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Politically I also don't believe anymore that we can only have one voice to a story, it's like having one radio station to represent a country. You want the politics of any complicated situation to be complicated in a book of fiction or nonfiction.
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All I desired was to walk upon such an earth that had no maps.
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He knows that the only way he can accept losing her is if he can continue to hold her or be held by her. If they can somehow nurse each other out of this. Not with a wall.
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I promised to tell you how one falls in love.
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...sometimes we enter art to hide within it. It is where we can go to save ourselves, where a third-person voice protects us.
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Githa Hariharan's fiction is wonderful-full of subtleties and humor and tenderness.
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She had always wanted words, she loved them grew up on them. Words gave her clarity, brought reason, shape.
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We keep wanting to save those who are forlorn in this world. It’s a male habit.
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Could you fall in love with her if she wasn't smarter than you? I mean, she may not be smarter than you. But isn't it important for you to think she is smarter than you in order to fall in love? Think now.
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Nicholas Temelcoff is famous on the bridge, a daredevil. He is given all the difficult jobs and he takes them. He descends into the air with no fear. He is a solitary. He assembles ropes, brushes the tackle and pulley at his waist, and falls off the bridge like a diver over the edge of a boat.
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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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