The past is still, for us, a place that is not safely settled.
More Quotes from Michael Ondaatje:
To write about someone like myself would be very limiting.Michael Ondaatje
As a writer, one is busy with archaeology.
Michael Ondaatje
A writer uses a pen instead of a scalpel or blow torch.
Michael Ondaatje
Research can be a big clunker. It's difficult to know how you can make the historical light.
Michael Ondaatje
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.
Michael Ondaatje
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
Readers Who Like This Quotation Also Like:
Based on Topics: Past Quotes, Place QuotesBecause her voice is, it's like the muscles and it develops all the time. That was the fantastic thing for us.
Andrew Lloyd Webber
Freedom granted only when it is known beforehand that its effects will be beneficial is not freedom.
Friedrich August von Hayek
Whatever kind of seed is sown in a field, prepared in due season, a plant of that same kind, marked with the peculiar qualities of the seed, springs up in it.
Guru Nanak