When we are young we do not look into mirrors. It is when we are old, concerned with our name, our legend,… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
Women want everything of a lover. And too often I would sink below the surface. So armies disappear under sand. And there… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
You don't want to write your own opinion, you don't want to just represent yourself, but represent yourself through someone else. — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
I want to die on your chest but not yet she wrote sometime in the 13th century of our love — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
Tell me, is it possible to love someone who is not as smart as you are? ...But isn't it important for you… — 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
Her life with others no longer interests him. He wants only her stalking beauty, her theatre of expressions. He wants the minute… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Politically I also don't believe anymore that we can only have one voice to a story, it's like having one radio station… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
I want the marginality to come into the center. This is the thing I was conscious of growing up, when I later… — 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 Image
He will hear the rain before he feels it, a clicking on the dry grass, on the olive leaves. — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“...those who had risked everything at a riverbend on a left turn and so discovered a fortune.” — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
From this point on, she whispered, we will either find or lose our souls. — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“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 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 state, the… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
