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

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• Michael Ondaatje:

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

• Michael Ondaatje:

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

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

• Michael Ondaatje:

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

• Michael Ondaatje:

  Once I've discovered the story, I might restructure it, maybe move things around, set up a clue tha

• Michael Ondaatje:

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

• Michael Ondaatje:

  You're getting everyone's point of view at the same time, which, for me, is the perfect state for a

• Michael Ondaatje:

  It's why you create characters: so you can argue with yourself.

• Michael Ondaatje:

  Truth, at the wrong time, can be dangerous.

• Michael Ondaatje:

  Right now, I have no idea what I will write or if I will write again.