#v

The sheik is, thank God, still alive and this hurts Bush who promised to his people to kill Osama. ↗

— Mohammed Omar

#bush #god #his #hurts #kill

Experiencing sadness and anger can make you feel more creative, and by being creative, you can get beyond your pain or negativity. ↗

— Yoko Ono

#being #beyond #creative #experiencing #feel

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

— Michael Ondaatje

#ending #i #i see #novel #open

That's Anil's path. She grows up in Sri Lanka, goes and gets educated abroad, and through fate or chance gets brought back by the Human Rights Commission to investigate war crimes. ↗

— Michael Ondaatje

#back #brought #chance #commission #crimes

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

— Michael Ondaatje

#closure #ending #i #novels #real

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

— Michael Ondaatje

#perception #point #point of view #someone #view

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

— Michael Ondaatje

#even #i #know #later #me

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

#beyond #book #case #darkness #discovering

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

#faint #first #get #here #human

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. ↗

— Michael Ondaatje

#almost #being #books #case #coincidence