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Michael Ondaatje Quotes


To write about someone like myself would be very limiting.

Truth, at the wrong time, can be dangerous.

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

You don't want to write your own opinion, you don't want to just represent yourself, but represent yourself through someone else.

You want to suggest something new, but at the same time, resolve the drama of the action in the novel.

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.