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Story Quotes by Michael Ondaatje
- 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…
- 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…
- It's a responsibility of the writer to get the reader out of the story somehow.
- I don't have a plan for a story when I sit down to write. I would get quite bored carrying it out.
- I tend not to know what the plot is or the story is or even the theme. Those things come later, for me.
- For we live with those retrievals from childhood that coalesce and echo throughout our lives, the way shattered pieces of glass in a kaleidoscope reappear…
- A love story is not about those who lost their heart but about those who find that sullen inhabitant who, when it is stumbled upon,…
- She entered the story knowing she would emerge from it feeling she had been immersed in the lives of others, in plots that stretched back…
- There is a story, always ahead of you. Barely existing. Only gradually do you attach yourself to it and feed it. You discover the carapace…
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