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Githa Hariharan's fiction is wonderful-full of subtleties and humor and tenderness.

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Michael Ondaatje
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: September 12
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For echo is the soul of the voice exciting itself in hollow places.
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People don't write about kids you have to give them a lot of freedom, and that causes anarchy and that causes farce.
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All I ever wanted was a world without maps.
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Women want everything of a lover. And too often I would sink below the surface. So armies disappear under sand. And there was her fear of her husband, her belief in her honour, my old desire for self-sufficiency, my disappearances, her suspicions of me, my disbelief that she loved me. The paranoia and claustrophobia of hidden love.
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There is the hidden presence of others in us, even those we have known briefly. We contain them for the rest of our lives, at every border that we cross.
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So we came to understand that small and important thing, that our lives could be large with interesting strangers who would pass us without any personal involvement.
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This was the time in her life that she fell upon books as the only door out of her cell. They became half her world.
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There's more danger in the violence you don't face.
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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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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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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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she had a laugh that hinted it had rolled around once or twice in the mud.
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Truth, at the wrong time, can be dangerous.
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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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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.
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Some events take a lifetime to reveal their damage and influence.
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As a writer, one is busy with archaeology.
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That's one of the great sadnesses of any life - knowing what you know now and then remembering what you did not know then.
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