Canadian - Author | September 12, 1943 -
When you're writing, it's as if you're within a kind of closed world.
Michael Ondaatje
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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 cubist novel.
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It's why you create characters: so you can argue with yourself.
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Right now, I have no idea what I will write or if I will write again.
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Research can be a big clunker. It's difficult to know how you can make the historical light.
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I don't have a plan for a story when I sit down to write. I would get quite bored carrying it out.
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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 darkness, beyond where you're writing.
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A writer uses a pen instead of a scalpel or blow torch.
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As a writer, one is busy with archaeology.
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You don't want to write your own opinion, you don't want to just represent yourself, but represent yourself through someone else.
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To write about someone like myself would be very limiting.
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The last three books are much more a case of a moment of history, what happened almost by accident or coincidence, like being in the same elevator or lifeboat.
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