Michael Ondaatje Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

Michael Ondaatje quotes and sayings page 3 (81 year old author). These are the last 6 out of 26 quotes we have for him.

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

“To write about someone like myself would be very limiting.”

“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.”

“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.”

“The last three books are much more a case of a moment of history, what happened almost by accident or coincidence, like being in the same elevator or lifeboat.”