Best Michael Ondaatje Quotes
- Between the kitchen and the destroyed chapel a door led into an oval-shaped library. The space inside seemed safe except for a large hole at… Accepting
- It's a responsibility of the writer to get the reader out of the story somehow. Inspirational
- It's an odd state to be in, blowing the whistle on your home country. Blowing
- Some events take a lifetime to reveal their damage and influence. Damage
- I don't see novels ending with any real sense of closure. Any
- I don't have a plan for a story when I sit down to write. I would get quite bored carrying it out. Bored
- What began it all was the bright bone of a dream I could hardly hold onto. All
- Every immigrant family, it seems, has someone who does not belong in the new country they have come to. It feels like permanent exile to… Belong
- We keep wanting to save those who are forlorn in this world. It’s a male habit. Forlorn
- I thought I was being loved because I was being altered. Altered
- As a writer, one is busy with archaeology. Archaeology
- I tend not to know what the plot is or the story is or even the theme. Those things come later, for me. Come Later
- Sadness is very close to hate. Close
- Research can be a big clunker. It's difficult to know how you can make the historical light. Big
- Right now, I have no idea what I will write or if I will write again. Idea
- The past is still, for us, a place that is not safely settled. Inspirational
- Truth, at the wrong time, can be dangerous. Bad Timing
- You want to suggest something new, but at the same time, resolve the drama of the action in the novel. Action
- When you're writing, it's as if you're within a kind of closed world. Closed
- To write about someone like myself would be very limiting. Inspirational
- You don't want to write your own opinion, you don't want to just represent yourself, but represent yourself through someone else. Opinion
- There's more danger in the violence you don't face. Danger
- There's always been anger in the making of music or literature or dance. Anger
- I see myself as someone who's been saved by writing. God knows what I would have been, become or how I would have ended up… Been
- 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… Air
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