The first sentence of every novel should be: Trust me, this will take time but there is order here, very faint, very… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
“-I think you are inhuman. If I leave you, who will you go to? Would you find another lover? I said nothing.… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
You're getting everyone's point of view at the same time, which for me, is the perfect state for a novel: a cubist… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
“I went mad before he did, you killed everything in me. Kiss me,will you. Stop defending yourself.” — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
You want to suggest something new, but at the same time, resolve the drama of the action in the novel. — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
The first sentence of every novel should be: Trust me, this will take time but there is order here, very faint, very… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
When I write my novels I don't really have a huge plan beforehand; I don't have the whole plot and architecture, so… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
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.… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
As someone who writes novels that are often set in other periods of time or other ages or other landscapes, there's a… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
When I began to write novels, I wanted to keep that element of interaction with the reader that exists in poetry, not… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
“In spite of this, our table's status on the Oronsay continued to be minimal, while those at the Captain's Table were constantly toasting to… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share
He will hear the rain before he feels it, a clicking on the dry grass, on the olive leaves. — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share
“Whenever her father was alone with a dog in a house he would lean over and smell the skin at the base of its… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share
“...those who had risked everything at a riverbend on a left turn and so discovered a fortune.” — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share
“All over the world there must be people like us, Anna had said then, wounded in some way by falling in love - seemingly… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share
Her father had taught her about hands. About a dog's paws. Whenever her father was alone with a dog in a house he would… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share
What is interesting and important happens mostly in secret, in places where there is no power. Nothing much of lasting value ever happens at… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share
From this point on, she whispered, we will either find or lose our souls. — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share
“You know it is the most relaxed thing when you when you sit with a best friend and you know there is nothing you… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share
“There was no control except the " mood of his power... and it is for this reason it is good you never heard him… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share
You're getting everyone's point of view at the same time, which for me, is the perfect state for a novel: a cubist state, the… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share
“The Time Around Scars: A girl whom I've not spoken to or shared coffee with for several years writes of an old scar. On… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share
