South African - Playwright | November 12, 1963 -
Real obsession needs an unconscious motivation behind it.
Damon Galgut
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Literature at its fullest takes human nature as its theme. That's the kind of writing that interests me.
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I wrote large chunks of 'The Impostor' and 'The Good Doctor' on a beach in Goa.
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While apartheid was in operation, the set-up was a gift for writers if you were looking for a big theme.
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I'm fascinated by how much has changed from one generation to another. There are young people growing up now for whom apartheid is just a distant memory and the idea of military service is an abstract notion.
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Traveling is one of few zones of experience where you are not directly plugged into the world around you. You're not part of the society you're passing through.
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I should confess that I'm woefully under-read in South African fiction.
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Perhaps cliche is nothing more than the weight of the past pinning down your mind. In this sense, imaginative freedom is a way of finding the future, though it isn't so easy to do.
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I first went to India because of my interest in yoga, hoping to go to the Iyengar Centre in Pune for a while. That didn't work out, but I ended up on a beach in Goa, writing.
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I've been wanting to write a book about what goes into creating a novel, and the story behind 'A Passage to India' is especially interesting.
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Unrequited affection is very painful for the lover, but it can have unexpected, creative consequences.
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Something in a writer's brain needs to watch everything with a detached, amoral eye.
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