Ondaatje Novel Quotes

#1. I see through your brain like I see through the water that runs down the drain.

Bob Dylan

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

Michael Ondaatje

#3. I went mad before he did, you killed everything in me. Kiss me,will you. Stop defending yourself.

Michael Ondaatje

#4. Honesty will guide you to goodness, and goodness will invite you to heaven.

Hazrat Ali Ibn Abu-Talib A.S

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

Michael Ondaatje

#6. 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

#7. The Bay Area is so beautiful, I hesitate to preach about heaven while I'm here.

Billy Graham

#8. A clown's makeup and character, that's all he has to sell. He loves and believes in that character.

Emmett Kelly

#9. Judaism reognized the home as being a co-partner with the synagogue in the nurturing of spirituality, and accorded the woman, as primary home-maker, the greatest consideration.

Jeff Cohen

#10. -I think you are inhuman. If I leave you, who will you go to? Would you find another lover?
I said nothing.
-Deny it,damn you!

Michael Ondaatje

#11. 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

#12. A novel is a mirror walking down a road

Michael Ondaatje