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Michael Ondaatje

"It's a responsibility of the writer to get the reader out of the story somehow."

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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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"I see the poem or the novel ending with an open door."
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"I don't see novels ending with any real sense of closure."
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"Right now, I have no idea what I will write or if I will write again."
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"In the book the relationship with Katharine and Almasy is sort of only in the patient's mind."
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"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."
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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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"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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"A writer uses a pen instead of a scalpel or blow torch."
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"I'm a Canadian citizen. But I always want to feel at home in Sri Lanka. I'm a member of both countries."
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