South African - Playwright | November 12, 1963 -
I go for long walks in Newlands Forest in Cape Town, and I go to the Turkish baths on Sunday mornings.
Damon Galgut
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For the first five years of my life, things felt pretty good. A lot went wrong after that, family-wise.
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I'm not designed to interact with society.
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I try to get going early, on the assumption that the way you begin your day is the way you continue. But certain books only want to be written at night, so there's no hard rule where work is concerned.
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I work by hand, with a fountain pen, in bound notebooks I buy in India.
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Stationery gets me excited because it has an individual character, unlike computers, which may be convenient but are generic and bland.
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I'm constitutionally incapable of working on planes or trains, and airports are definitely out.
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Writing is very good for household tasks. Because you'd rather fix a dripping tap or paint an old wall - you'd rather do almost anything than sit and write. I have to reach a point of obsession in order to write, and so I find starting a book incredibly difficult.
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Yoga helps me with a composed and serene state of mind, which is good for writing.
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Writing is not like acting, where you can pull these little stunts that create a particular effect. Words are all it is about, and the way you use words has to be individual and particular to you.
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Generally, writers have very uninteresting lives.
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Almost overnight, white people have gone from being very powerful to potentially irrelevant. Their future in South Africa is not what many had envisaged, so it involves a lot of reinvention.
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