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Michael Ondaatje
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: September 12
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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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She had always wanted words, she loved them grew up on them. Words gave her clarity, brought reason, shape.
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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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It's a responsibility of the writer to get the reader out of the story somehow.
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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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I think precision in writing goes hand in hand with not trying to say everything. You try and say two-thirds, so the reader will involve himself or herself.
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There's always been anger in the making of music or literature or dance.
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Research can be a big clunker. It's difficult to know how you can make the historical light.
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Truth, at the wrong time, can be dangerous.
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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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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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I'm a Canadian citizen. But I always want to feel at home in Sri Lanka. I'm a member of both countries.
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I promised to tell you how one falls in love.
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Politically I 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.
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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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What is interesting and important happens mostly in secret, in places where there is no power.
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So many nurses had turned into emotionally disturbed handmaidens of the war, in their yellow-and-crimson uniforms with bone buttons.
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all this Beethoven and rain
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There's more danger in the violence you don't face.
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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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