The first sentence of every novel should be: Trust me, this will take time but there is order here, very faint, very human. Meander if you want to get to town. — Michael Ondaatje
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Michael Ondaatje : Canadian Author
Born: September 12, 1943
Madly, futilely, I wrote novel after novel, eight in all, th…
You expect far too much of a first sentence. Think of it as …
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Sometimes I test myself saying, ‘If I get a death sentence i…
Emma’ is my favorite Jane Austen novel – one of my favorite …
I was writing an earnest novel about cruises in the Caribbea…
Madly, futilely, I wrote novel after novel, eight in all, th…
You expect far too much of a first sentence. Think of it as …
The best movies have one sentence that they’re exploring, a …
Sometimes I test myself saying, ‘If I get a death sentence i…
Emma’ is my favorite Jane Austen novel – one of my favorite …
A man is like a novel: until the very last page you don’t kn …
I am still bowled over by this great young adult novel by Da…
Writing a novel is one of those modern rites of passage, I t…
Writing a novel is a terrible experience, during which the h…
I wrote a novel for my degree, and I’m very happy I didn’t s…
Romantic fiction, in the broader sense, can be any novel tha…
My first novel, ‘The Lions of Lucerne,’ just poured out of m…
I have no favourite genre or style but treat each novel with…
No one in a novel by Virginia Woolf ever filled up the petro…
I was writing an earnest novel about cruises in the Caribbea…
Caught’ is a novel of forgiveness, and the past and the pres…
It’s no accident that my first novel was called Americana. T…
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The Accursed’ is very much a novel about social injustice as…
Writing a novel is not merely going on a shopping expedition…
