To write about someone like myself would be very limiting.
Michael Ondaatje

Truth, at the wrong time, can be dangerous.
Michael Ondaatje

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

You don't want to write your own opinion, you don't want to just represent yourself, but represent yourself through someone else.
Michael Ondaatje

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