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Michael Ondaatje
 
Date of birth: 12 September 1943
Date of death: Alive (or unknown)
Country Of Origin: Canada
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Novelist

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

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" Anil's Ghost may be a familiar style to earlier books I've written, but it feels new to me. "

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" As a writer, one is busy with archaeology. "

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" I did not expect Anil's Ghost to go off into a twenty or thirty page section in the Grove of Ascetics when I began, but that seemed to be the way the book should go. "

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" I do know that film is much more visceral, in terms of its effect on the reader. "

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" I don't have a plan for a story when I sit down to write. I would get quite bored carrying it out. "

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" I don't see novels ending with any real sense of closure. "

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" I grew up in a country that was very different - the germs of racism were there then, I just wasn't aware of it. "

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" I read fiction, a little nonfiction, a little poetry - as various as possible. "

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

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" I tend not to know what the plot is or the story is or even the theme. Those things come later, for me. "

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

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

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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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