"It's an odd state to be in, blowing the whistle on your home country."

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"It's an odd state to be in, blowing the whistle on your home country."

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"Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home."

Samuel Johnson, English Author

Home, Death, Night, Will

"Maybe that's the best part of going away for a vacation-coming home again."

Madeleine L'Engle, American Novelist

Home, Travel, Comfort, Nostalgia

"Everything I'd been longing to get away from, true, but not through destruction. I'd wanted to leave home, but have it stay in place, waiting for me, unchanged, so I could step back into it at will."

Margaret Atwood, Canadian Novelist

Home, Change, Escape, Stability

"We improved the environment in which our children live, learn and play by decreasing crime and clamping down on abuse and violence in the home and on the streets."

Jane D. Hull, American Politician

Home, Abuse, Children, Crime

"My mother was a churchgoing lady, so I always heard about God at home."

Smokey Robinson, American Musician

Home, Mother, God, Lady

"Having been let out of the barn once, I know I wouldn't be happy if I were home all the time."

Meryl Streep, American Actress

Home, Time

"Home is anywhere that you know all your friends and all your enemies."

Orson Scott Card, American Writer

Home, Friendship, Enemy, Life

"I was brought up in the modern world of all the luxury and the highlight of show business. I was born into a Christian home."

Cat Stevens, British Musician

Home, Business, Christian, Luxury

"The appreciative smile, the chuckle, the soundless mirth, so important to the success of comedy, cannot be understood unless one sits among the audience and feels the warmth created by the quality of laughter that the audience takes home with it."

James Thurber, American Comedian

Home, Success, Quality, Comedy

"There's nothing like a good cheating song to make me want to run home to be with my wife."

Steven Curtis Chapman, American Musician

Home, Wife, Cheating, Nothing

Explore more quotes by Michael Ondaatje

"A writer uses a pen instead of a scalpel or blow torch."

Expression

"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."

War

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

Time

"In the book the relationship with Katharine and Almasy is sort of only in the patient's mind."

Mind

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

World

"I see the poem or the novel ending with an open door."

Ambiguity

"It doubles your perception, to write from the point of view of someone you're not."

Perception

"I'm a Canadian citizen. But I always want to feel at home in Sri Lanka. I'm a member of both countries."

Home

"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."

Time

"Research can be a big clunker. It's difficult to know how you can make the historical light."

Research