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. Michael Ondaatje Read Quote
The first sentence of every novel should be: Trust me, this will take time but there is order here, very faint, very human. Meander if you want to get to town. Michael Ondaatje Read Quote
Once I’ve discovered the story, I might restructure it, maybe move things around, set up a clue that something is going to happen later, but that happens much later in an editorial capacity. Michael Ondaatje Read Quote
You want to suggest something new, but at the same time, resolve the drama of the action in the novel. Michael Ondaatje Read Quote
It’s a responsibility of the writer to get the reader out of the story somehow. Michael Ondaatje Read Quote
That’s Anil’s path. She grows up in Sri Lanka, goes and gets educated abroad, and through fate or chance gets brought back by the Human Rights Commission to investigate war crimes. Michael Ondaatje Read Quote
In the book the relationship with Katharine and Almasy is sort of only in the patient’s mind. Michael Ondaatje Read Quote
I tend not to know what the plot is or the story is or even the theme. Those things come later, for me. Michael Ondaatje Read Quote
