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Michael Ondaatje Quotes

When you're writing, it's as if you're within a kind of closed world.

Michael Ondaatje

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: canadian
Birth: September 12, 1943

Topics

Writing World You Kind Within

In the States, you can buy Chinese food. In Beijing you can buy hamburger. It's very close. Now I feel the world become a big family, like a really big family. You have many neighbors. Not like before, two countries are far away.

Family Food World Feel You Far Away

I think the Internet was invented specifically to stop people finishing their books. And it does quite a good job. I don't have blocking software, though I could easily imagine needing it. I just don't do that stuff until I've got the words done for the day.

John Lanchester

Good Day Job Words People Think

I spend eight months outlining and researching the novel before I begin to write a single word of the prose.

Write Single Begin Word Eight Prose

It's dangerous to talk too much about future fights.

Future Dangerous Too Much Talk Much

If you had an essentially happy childhood, that tends to dwell with you.

Childhood Happy You Dwell Had Tends

I like Rebecca Miller and her writing. She's a tremendous writer and director.

Writing She Director Her Like

I operate on the assumption that as a member of Congress, presently, I represent everybody - Republicans, Democrats, independents and, yes, some people who don't care to participate.

Rodney Frelinghuysen

People Care Congress Some People Yes

A North Korea that has the capability to use a nuclear weapon that can reach an American city or those of an ally poses a grave challenge as the U.S. seeks to preserve peace and stability in the region.

Challenge Peace City American Reach

This fear of death infused me with the desire to live, and to live harder.

Fear Live Death Me Desire Harder

If an ad campaign is built around a weak idea - or as is so often the case, no idea at all - I don't give a damn how good the execution is, it's going to fail.

Good Execution Damn Weak Fail Going

To me, the most interesting films are films that take very strong points of view and bang them up against each other and let sparks happen.

Me Strong View Interesting Up Take

One thing about me is that I'm very much like the Black Madonna. I love to reinvent myself and that's because I am a very free person.

Love Myself I Am Me Free Black

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